From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric Schulte" Subject: Re: org-exp-blocks: what about previewing blocks ? Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:59:08 -0700 Message-ID: References: <51b0095d0906161740n23379dbbtdf919aa3e8a4ea4a@mail.gmail.com> <51b0095d0906180232j3489705dndcc7d458d5a078af@mail.gmail.com> <08E74544-CC3D-4AEA-B5C2-76826E46766A@gmail.com> 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 1MJzmi-0006tk-FI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:59:20 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MJzmd-0006kj-7j for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:59:19 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35169 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJzmd-0006ka-0b for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:59:15 -0400 Received: from mail-px0-f176.google.com ([209.85.216.176]:35660) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MJzmc-0000LZ-Gt for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:59:14 -0400 Received: by pxi6 with SMTP id 6so1676082pxi.14 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:59:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <08E74544-CC3D-4AEA-B5C2-76826E46766A@gmail.com> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:31:00 +0200") 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: Carsten Dominik Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Carsten Dominik writes: > On Jun 18, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Nicolas Girard wrote: > >> 2009/6/18 Carsten Dominik >> >> 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--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- >> functions would simply call their respective >> org-block--generate- >> image and work the same ; >> - for previewing a block of type : if such org-block-- >> 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. Thanks -- Eric > > - Carsten > > >> >> Nicolas >> _______________________________________________ >> Emacs-orgmode mailing list >> Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. >> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode