From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Schulte Subject: Re: [RFC] Standardized code block keywords Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:12:14 -0600 Message-ID: <87wrby5mus.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87pqhrih3s.fsf@gmail.com> <30891.1319141196@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> <87fwinifqu.fsf@gmail.com> <32184.1319143892@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> <808vofwf1w.fsf@somewhere.org> <87y5wfgwn7.fsf_-_@gmail.com> <8895.1319165867@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> <4EA11EA7.7020501@christianmoe.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34235) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RHHz6-0007Ab-Jc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:30:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RHHz0-0008Fe-JG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:30:16 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f47.google.com ([209.85.210.47]:49878) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RHHz0-0008FX-DI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:30:10 -0400 Received: by pzd13 with SMTP id 13so10841437pzd.6 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:30:09 -0700 (PDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: mail@christianmoe.com Cc: Sebastien Vauban , nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >> I'm confused by [3] so I will say nothing for now, except to ask some >> questions: are we talking about what a human would use to label a piece >> of data for consumption by a block (including perhaps the future >> possibilities of lists and paragraphs that Tom brought up)? what babel >> would use to label a results block (possibly so that it could be >> consumed by another block in a chain)? both? would that mean >> that #+tblname would go the way of the dodo and that tables would be >> labelled with #+data (or #+object or whatever else we come up with)? > > +1 (Confused, too) > well, I guess it is good that this discussion has begun if only to clear up this lingering uncertainty. > > I wasn't even aware of #+DATA. Does it do anything TBLNAME and SRCNAME > don't? > from the prospective of code blocks it is exactly synonymous with tblname. Srcname is different in that it labels code blocks. > > A reason to keep TBLNAME is that it's also used by the spreadsheet > remote references. If Babel looked for DATA instead, a table that is > both a remote reference for another spreadsheet and a data source for > a src block would need both TBLNAME and DATA, which seems redundant. > agreed, I'm thinking that tblname will at least remain an option no matter what decision is made. > > As for labeling lists and paragraphs, I recall from the list that > Nicolas Goaziou is working on a generalized way to set captions, > labels and attributes for various kinds of Org block, as is possible > now for tables and images. I thought that sounded promising. I don't > know if he planned for block names, too (currently we have tblname but > no imgname), but that could make sense. In which case it might be a > good idea to coordinate. > Agreed, I was not aware of this work. Thanks for sharing. In this vein I would like to voice my desire to be able to add captions to code blocks, the lack of this feature has bitten me in the past. -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/