Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de> writes:

> Hi Charles,
>
> Charles Berry <ccberry@ucsd.edu> writes:
>> Andreas Leha <andreas.leha <at> med.uni-goettingen.de> writes:
>>
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Grant Rettke <gcr <at> wisdomandwonder.com> writes:
>>> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Adriaan Sticker
>>> > <adriaan.sticker <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> I was wondering if it's somehow possible to give named org src buffer the
>>> >> name they were give in their #+NAME tag? Now there are just called 
>>> >> something like:
>>> >> *Org Src test.org[ R ]*
>>> >>
>>> >> But if you have multiple org-src buffers opened at the same time, its 
>>> >> hard to find the correct one back.
>>> >
>>> > Excellent idea. I've got so many small source blocks that it is too
>>> > difficult to make sense of
>>> > keeping multiple source block edit buffers open and limit them to one
>>> > at a time eg
>>> >
>>> > ,----
>>> > | (setq org-src-window-setup 'current-window)
>>> > `----
>>> >
>>> > How have you come upon your workflow of keeping multiple open and what
>>> > are some of the pros and
>>> > cons that you've found with it?
>>> 
>>> I'd be interested in this as well.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Andreas
>>> 
>>> 
>>
>> Maybe I am answering the wrong question, but org-edit-src-code allows
>> you to specify the buffer name:
>>
>
> You are answering my exact question.
>
>>
>> ,----[ C-h f org-edit-src-code RET ]
>> | org-edit-src-code is an interactive compiled Lisp function in
>> | `org-src.el'.
>> | 
>> | (org-edit-src-code &optional CONTEXT CODE EDIT-BUFFER-NAME)
>> | 
>> | ...
>> `----
>>
>> So you can do something like this:
>>
>> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
>>   (defun org-edit-src-code-plus-name ()
>>     (interactive)
>>     (let* ((eop  (org-element-at-point))
>>            (name (or (org-element-property :name (org-element-context eop))
>>                       "unnamed"))
>>            (lang (org-element-property :language eop))
>>            (buff-name (concat "*Org Src " name "[ " lang " ] *")))
>>       (org-edit-src-code nil nil buff-name)))
>> #+END_SRC
>>
>> which leads to a buffer named like "*Org Src My-block[ R ] *", where 
>> 'My-block' is the name of the src block.
>>
>
> Thanks!  On my first quick tests that works great!  It is in my
> initialization and I'll use that regularly.
>
> Is there any drawback to this?  Otherwise I'd advocate for
> org-edit-src-code doing that by default.

Haven't tried it out yet, but I second that statement.

Rainer

>
>> HTH,
>
> It sure does.
>
> Thanks,
> Andreas
>
>
>

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