Re: Re: [ANN] Org-babel integrated into Org-mode

[Stephan Schmitt <drmabuse@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Also sprach Eric Schulte:
> Štěpán Němec<stepnem@gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> "Eric Schulte"<schulte.eric@gmail.com>  writes:
>>
>>> Štěpán Němec<stepnem@gmail.com>  writes:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> How come some of your rewrites above still use the `org-babel-' prefix?
>>>> (As a side note, I don't see what Emacs guidelines suggest `ob-' is more
>>>> appropriate than `org-babel-', and I would personally prefer to retain
>>>> the latter -- it's much more descriptive.)
>>>>
>>>>      Štěpán
>>>>
>>>
[...]
>> The only restriction on file names I can recall is this section
>> from Appendix D of the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual:
>>
>>     * Please keep the names of your Emacs Lisp source files to 13
>>       characters or less.  This way, if the files are compiled, the
>>       compiled files' names will be 14 characters or less, which is
>>       short enough to fit on all kinds of Unix systems.
>>

Are there any unix systems running emacs 22 (iirc org-mode doesn't
support emacs 21 anymore) which have problems with long filenames?
We're living in the 21st century, aren't we?

[...]
>>
>> It would make a lot of sense to at least still begin the file names with
>> `org' IMHO, if at all possible.
>>
>
> hmm, the longest (non-language-specific) file name is already 12
> characters long,
>
> (length "ob-tangle.el") ;; =>  12
>
> which doesn't give us much room to play around with.  Looking at a
> couple of possible prefixes, and the related leftover characters for
> differentiating the *-tangle, *-comint, *-ref, etc... core babel files,
> yields the following
>
> | prefix   | remaining characters |
> |----------+----------------------|
> | ob-      |                    5 |
> | org-b-   |                    2 |
> | orgb-    |                    3 |
> | org-bbl- |                    0 |
> | bbl-     |                    4 |
> | babel-   |                    2 |
> #+TBLFM: $2='(sbe leftover (prefix $$1))
>
> #+source: leftover
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var prefix=""
>    (-
>     ;; length w/o .el
>     (- 13 (length ".el"))
>     ;; length of prefix
>     (length prefix))
> #+end_src
>
> Personally, none of the above seem to be particularly superior to the
> current naming scheme, given the fact that we need to fit multiple files
> behind this prefix.

I think you have to add 2 to each of the numbers above.
But the conclusion surely remains the same...

Greetings,
	Stephan