Re: Org mode release 6.04

[Shelagh Manton <shelagh.manton@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 25 May 2008 08:41:54 -0400
Austin Frank <austin.frank@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, May 25 2008, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> 
> > Editing source code example in the proper mode
> > ----------------------------------------------
> >
> > If you are writing a document with source code examples, you can
> > include these examples into a `#+BEGIN_SRC lang ... #+END_SRC' or
> > (with the org-mtags module loaded) a `<src...' structure.  `lang'
> > stands for the Emacs mode used for editing the language, this could
> > be `emacs-lisp' for Emacs Lisp mode examples, or `org' for Org mode
> > examples.  You can now use the key "C-c '" (that is C-c followed by
> > the single quote) to edit the example in its native mode.  This
> > works by creating an indirect buffer, narrowing it to the example
> > and setting the appropriate mode.  You need to exit editing by
> > killing that indirect buffer, with `C-x k'.  This is important,
> > because lines that have syntactic meaning in Org will be quoted
> > when the indirect buffer is killed.
> 
> Carsten--
> 
> This is a phenomenally exciting addition.  Combining this with the
> htmlized code examples in html export, and the option for \LaTeX
> export, org has clearly just vaulted past the rest of the field for
> literate programming.  Expect a tutorial from me in the next few
> weeks about using org with RWeave (the R variant of SWeave).  This
> will be a fantastic way to write articles that include statistical
> analyses and figures.
> 
> That said, don't be surprised if by opening this door you end up with
> some new feature requests from me :)  One addition that I can already
> see being interested in is the evaluation of embedded code before
> export, so that the results of the code are included along with the
> source.  Obviously, there are security issues here that will need to
> be thought about, but I'd like to see if we could make this work.
> 
> Greedy feature requests aside, this is very, very cool.
> 
> > I guess it would be nice to exit with `C-c C-c', but who knows what
> > this key is supposed to do in a random mode.
> 
> I can tell you now that C-c C-c is almost as overloaded in R-mode
> (from the package ESS) as it is in org-mode, and I will want it to
> have its R-mode interpretation while I edit R code.  While I'm
> writing, I'll try to keep an eye out for sensible ways of jumping out
> of coding mode and back to org-mode.
> 
> Thanks for this release!
> /au
> 


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