From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Mauer Subject: Improving Org Mode for VSCode - Thinking Aloud Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 12:55:27 -0500 Message-ID: Reply-To: gmauer@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0000000000004ecd7205a23e64b3" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48359) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jJhaW-0003m8-Pu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2020 13:55:41 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jJhaV-0007rn-OJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2020 13:55:40 -0400 Received: from mail-ot1-x335.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::335]:38830) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jJhaV-0007rM-JG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2020 13:55:39 -0400 Received: by mail-ot1-x335.google.com with SMTP id t28so488025ott.5 for ; Wed, 01 Apr 2020 10:55:39 -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-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: emacs-orgmode --0000000000004ecd7205a23e64b3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable With VSCode becoming ever-popular it seems like there might be some value in getting org mode working there simply as a way of promoting org as an excellent literate coding notebook. VSCode already has a halfway decent org-mode but it doesn=E2=80=99t support anything from Babel. I=E2=80=99m trying to think of relatively easy ways of= adding that ability. Here=E2=80=99s a thought: Most of babel that technically work= s against the document itself, it doesn=E2=80=99t really need much document integration with the editor. So could you get it working in vscode so long as someone has a properly configured version of emacs installed locally? =E2=80=9CEvaluate/Export/etc=E2=80=9D would just write the document, then u= se emacs to run the appropriate commands on it and refresh the document view. Of course features like the separate editor for src blocks and folding #results would be nice too, but if the basics could work that would be a huge win for org. Any thoughts on the feasibility of this? --0000000000004ecd7205a23e64b3 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
With VSCode becoming ever-popular it seem= s like there might be some value in getting org mode working there simply a= s a way of promoting org as an excellent literate coding notebook.

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VSCode already has a halfway decent org-mode but it doesn=E2=80= =99t support anything from Babel. I=E2=80=99m trying to think of relatively= easy ways of adding that ability. Here=E2=80=99s a thought: Most of babel = that technically works against the document itself, it doesn=E2=80=99t real= ly need much document integration with the editor. So could you get it work= ing in vscode so long as someone has a properly configured version of emacs= installed locally? =E2=80=9CEvaluate/Export/etc=E2=80=9D would just write = the document, then use emacs to run the appropriate commands on it and refr= esh the document view.

Of course features like the= separate editor for src blocks and folding=C2=A0#results would be nice too= , but if the basics could work that would be a huge win for org.
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Any thoughts on the feasibility of this?
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