From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric Schulte" Subject: [Announcement] Org-babel initial release Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 07:44:57 -0600 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MnBsB-0007eZ-66 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:45:39 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MnBs5-0007ca-Ui for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:45:38 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47610 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MnBs5-0007cI-PT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:45:33 -0400 Received: from mail-px0-f171.google.com ([209.85.216.171]:51258) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MnBs5-0002Ms-Aq for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:45:33 -0400 Received: by pxi1 with SMTP id 1so2528190pxi.1 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 06:45:31 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Org Mode Dan Davison and I (Eric Schulte) are happy to announce that Org-babel has now been released as a contributed package in Org-mode with corresponding documentation on worg [1]. Org-babel provides the following functionality: - Source-code execution and control of output in org buffers - currently supported languages [2]: - emacs-lisp - shell scripts - R - ruby - python - SQL - gnuplot - dot - ditaa - asymptote - Haskell - OCaml - css - sass - results of code execution can be [3]: - passed to other source-code blocks - inserted into Org buffer as Org-mode table - inserted into Org buffer as escaped text - inserted into Org buffer as raw Org-mode text - dropped to a file and linked to from Org-mode buffer (e.g. ditaa) - ignored - Meta-programming language for org mode: each source-code block is treated as a function which can accept arguments in the form of: - entire org-mode tables - output of other source-code blocks - raw text - values of cells in Org-mode tables using the Org spreadsheet functionality - Spreadsheet enhancement: source-code blocks can be called from spreadsheet functions within tables - Community maintained library of useful code blocks [4] - reproducible research [5] - literate programming with org-mode [6] - Org-babel has special support for embedding your emacs initialization in literate Org-mode files [7] To activate Org-babel simply grab the latest version of Org-mode and add the following to your Emacs init (more complete instructions at [8]). (require 'org-babel-init) Thanks -- Eric Footnotes: [1] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/org-babel.php [2] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/org-babel.php#languages [3] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/org-babel.php#header-arguments [4] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/org-babel.php#library-of-babel [5] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/org-babel.php#reproducable-research [6] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/org-babel.php#literate-programming [7] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/org-babel.php#literate-emacs-initialization [8] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/org-babel.php#getting-started