[proposal] better documentation around syntax highlighting Org-Mode code blocks when exporting to LaTeX

[Randomcoder <randomcoder1@gmail.com>]

Hi,

While writing technical documents, as a programmer and an Org-Mode user,
for me it's important to have ways to syntax highlight code blocks when
exporting them to LaTeX.

While I am aware of the customizations that need to be done
to Org-Mode's configuration in order to get that to work, in
particular customizing these variables(see [1] for details):

* org-latex-listings
* org-latex-custom-lang-environments
* org-latex-minted-options

and having tried them, I got this working for one document, but it
really felt like a lot of trial-and-error and a lot of room for error
on my side as a user.

Although this is Org-Mode and it is supposed to be very customizable
(like Emacs is), I still believe the documentation and the implementation
can be improved on this.

I think there's even reason to believe that this should be working out
of the box. The only reason I see for this not being the default setting
is to not add pygments [2] as a dependency. Still, I think it should be
much easier for me as a user to spend less time getting it to work.

I welcome any feedback on this.

Thank you for taking the time to read my proposal.


[1] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.html#sec-12-2
[2] http://pygments.org/