From: "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-exp-blocks: what about previewing blocks ?
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:16:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m28wjekjae.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <08136B46-C923-4540-90E1-BD5850745F80@gmail.com> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:17:51 +0200")
Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> On Jun 26, 2009, at 2:59 AM, Eric Schulte wrote:
>
>> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Jun 18, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Nicolas Girard wrote:
>>>
>>>> 2009/6/18 Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 17, 2009, at 2:40 AM, Nicolas Girard wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> currently the code in org-exp-blocks is intended for pre-processing
>>>> only.
>>>> It seems to me like org-mode would gain a very powerful feature, if
>>>> blocks could also be previewed in their own buffer, using the same
>>>> mechanism as the org-format-latex function.
>>>> What do you think ?
>>>>
>>>> I don't see how this could be done in a general way. I guess you
>>>> mean in particular
>>>> the graphics blocks like ditaa?
>>>>
>>>> Yes. For any block type bt, if it makes sense, it would be possible
>>>> to write such org-block-<bt>-generate-image(body) that takes the
>>>> block as argument and returns the path of the image it produced.
>>>>
>>>> Then:
>>>> - for exporting: the existing org-export-blocks-format-<bt>
>>>> functions would simply call their respective
>>>> org-block-<bt>-generate-
>>>> image and work the same ;
>>>> - for previewing a block of type <bt>: if such org-block-<bt>-
>>>> generate-image exists, call it and display it the same way org-
>>>> format-latex does
>>>>
>>>> Wouldn't it be great ?
>>>
>>> Yes, it would be. First you will need to talk Eric Schulte into
>>> splitting the image generation functions into separate functions.
>>> The I could look into the preview functionality.
>>>
>>
>> I recently sent out an email announcement of development on org-babel
>> which should provide a unified backend for evaluating source-code
>> contained in org-mode blocks. If org-exp-blocks is using org-babel
>> for
>> it's source-code evaluation the ability to interactively evaluate
>> blocks
>> will come for free. This would be my preference rather than
>> implementing a new code-evaluation schema for org-exp-blocks.
>>
>> I suppose that this would assume that org-babel is accepted into the
>> core of org-mode (for it to be a requirement of org-exp-blocks which
>> is
>> now part of the org-mode core). While this would be my preference, it
>> is certainly not my decision to make, and I honestly haven't given it
>> much thought up until this point.
>
> From your post yesterday, without looking closer at org-babel,
> it sounded to me that it is still under heavy development,
> so maybe it is too early for the core at this moment?
>
Yes, I am very much in agreement that it is too soon to contemplate
moving org-babel into the core. The intended point of my aside above is
that I don't plan on adding interactive evaluation directly to
org-exp-blocks.
Thanks -- Eric
>
> No principal objections, of course.
>
> - Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-26 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-17 0:40 org-exp-blocks: what about previewing blocks ? Nicolas Girard
2009-06-18 7:41 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-06-18 9:32 ` Nicolas Girard
2009-06-19 15:31 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-06-26 0:59 ` Eric Schulte
2009-06-26 4:17 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-06-26 17:16 ` Eric Schulte [this message]
2009-08-27 16:38 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-08-27 18:51 ` Eric Schulte
2009-08-28 8:02 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-08-28 16:06 ` Eric Schulte
2009-08-28 16:31 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-06-18 8:21 ` Carsten Dominik
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