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From: Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: Chris Maier <christopher.maier@gmail.com>,
	emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [BABEL] Editing dot blocks with org-exp-blocks
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:14:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1r5bhutnu.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k4h9xpro.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:10:19 +0000")

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Chris Maier <christopher.maier@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> The begin_dot is part of org-exp-blocks, as I understand it, and
>> appears required to make it evaluate the Dot code, create the image
>> file, and then incorporate that into the exported document (LaTeX,
>> HTML, etc.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:56 AM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> Chris Maier <christopher.maier@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> In "normal" Org code blocks (e.g. #+begin_src clojure .... #+end_src)
>>>> it's possible to hit C-c ' and edit the block code in a separate
>>>> buffer with the appropriate mode.  This doesn't appear to work when
>>>> using org-exp-blocks to edit a "begin_dot" block.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a command to do this?
>>>
>>> No idea but what about using #+begin_src dot ... #+end_src?
>>> --
>>> : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1
>>> : using Org-mode version 7.4 (release_7.4.324.gca7a)
>>>
>
> Yes, I know; I used to use begin_dot and begin_ditaa quite a bit.  My
> understanding is that babel knows about dot and therefore provides the
> same functionality, albeit in a different way,

I vote for removing / deprecating the dot and ditaa functionality of
org-exp-blocks.


> possibly more confusing
> but definitely more customisable and hence more powerful.  babel gives
> you access to features such as fontification, mode specific editing,
> caching.
>
> I am not sure what the intended long term development for these special
> export blocks might be?  org's long term growth (development of
> features) is organic and responsive, not planned per se (and I mean this
> in a positive way as planned software projects seldom achieve their
> goals...)  so it may be that nobody can answer this question!
>
> In any case, I didn't mean to imply that you cannot continue using these
> specific export blocks or that they don't do the job they were intended
> for.  Simply that maybe babel is the route to go if you want to be able
> to use mode specific editing.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-09 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-09  3:50 [BABEL] Editing dot blocks with org-exp-blocks Chris Maier
2011-02-09  8:56 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-02-09 13:31   ` Chris Maier
2011-02-09 14:10     ` Eric S Fraga
2011-02-09 15:14       ` Dan Davison [this message]
2011-02-09 15:39         ` Chris Maier
2011-02-09 16:14           ` Dan Davison
2011-02-10  2:05             ` Chris Maier
2011-02-10  1:05         ` Eric Schulte
2011-02-10 10:05           ` Eric S Fraga
2011-02-10 17:02             ` Eric Schulte
2011-02-09  8:58 ` Sébastien Vauban

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