Re: Anyone doing any fancy customizations of source blocks?

[Diego Zamboni <diego@zzamboni.org>]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the kind words! I wrote a booklet about my setup including
other "literate config" examples, if you are interested:
https://leanpub.com/lit-config/read

I have been fascinated by the idea of literate programming since I got
a copy of The Stanford GraphBase while I was in college. I never used
CWEB directly, but I have tried noweb and other literate programming
tools over the years. However, Emacs + Org-mode + Babel is the first
toolset that I have actually been able to stick with on sustained use
:)

Best,
--Diego

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 10:09 PM briangpowell . <briangpowellms@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you haven't already, you probably know all about it; but, for any newcomers on the subject of Literate Programming & source code blocks, etc.
>
> Highly recommend Knuth's CWEB book & of course NOWEB software {which is CWEB generalized for ALL programming languages}:
>
> https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/cweb.html
>
> Thanks Diego, its a very interesting config example
>
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 2:24 PM Diego Zamboni <diego@zzamboni.org> wrote:
>>
>> I use the config John mentioned and I like it - though I use different
>> symbols. Here's my config if you want an example:
>> https://github.com/zzamboni/dot-emacs/blob/master/init.org#source-code-blocks
>>
>> --Diego
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 9:24 PM John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> > Here is one approach:
>> >
>> > https://pank.eu/blog/pretty-babel-src-blocks.html
>> >
>> > I feel like I have seen some work that used ruby and python icons as displays over #+begin_src, but I can't find it now.
>> >
>> > John
>> >
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>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 2:54 PM William Denton <wtd@pobox.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Is anyone doing any fancy formatting of source blocks, such as putting a line
>> >> in the left fringe, or a box around them, or having some interesting background?
>> >>
>> >> I ask because I recently changed the theme I use to get the dark Solarized look
>> >> I like,[1] and all of a sudden my #+begin_src lines were underlined and
>> >> #+end_src had a line above it.  These come from org-block-begin-line and
>> >> org-block-end-line, and are shown here, but I'd never noticed them in
>> >> documentation or had them on my screen before:
>> >>
>> >> https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/examples/fontify-src-code-blocks.html
>> >>
>> >> Aside from fontifying the source blocks I've never done anything special about
>> >> them (except wonder how I ever did anything without them), but seeing this made
>> >> me wonder if anyone here has really customized them so they look like medieval
>> >> manuscripts or something from a futuristic video game.  (If any of that is
>> >> possible---but in Emacs, anything is possible ...)
>> >>
>> >> Bill
>> >>
>> >> [1] Now I'm using https://github.com/bbatsov/solarized-emacs, with variable
>> >> pitch turned off and Org headline resizing turned off.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> William Denton :: Toronto, Canada   ---   Listening to Art: https://listeningtoart.org/
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>> >>
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