Re: [OT] Xiki - could something like that be done with emacs+orgmode?

[Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@gmail.com>]

The xiki video is interesting, and I immediately thought of babel.
However, babel sh-mode doesn't have support for execution yet. Even if
it did, it wouldn't be a really good alternative, due to babel's
verbosity.

One idea is to have a babel subtree (or buffer) that is keyed to a
specific language, so that everything under it is assumed to be an
executable statement.  Something like:

* Project A
** Shell
   :PROPERTIES:
   :BABEL-TYPE: sh
   :END:

ls
  - file1
  - file2
  - file3

run_server
  ouput-buffer

** Next thing

Where the files and output-buffer are linked.  The interaction within
the BABEL-TYPE heading would be similar to the *scratch* buffer, just
execute and it gives you the result immediately below.  Except the
result should work be org-output, and linked when appropriate.

Babel would be handling this, but it wouldn't need the boilerplate for
each command, or each output.

The idea to use [[shell:ls]] and things like that is also useful, but
right now the output goes to a different buffer, and is not otherwise
tied in with org-mode.  This is why I think babel might be a better
fit for this type of functionality.


On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
> Hi Marcelo,
>
> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUR_eUVcABg&feature=youtu.be
>>
>> I'm wondering it something like that could be done with emacs (and
>> possibly integrating orgmode to add the outlining features)?
>
> * [[shell:ls -l]]
>
> * shell:pwd
>
> ... etc etc.
>
> I think pretty all the features described here are already available
> with some elisp.
>
> The basic idea is that the command prompt and the results are of the
> same kind: text you can edit, and that can produce an output... that you
> can further reuse as a command.  Which is the core idea of Org.
>
> If there is any specific feature displayed in the video that seems
> useful for Org, let us know.
>
> My 2 cents,
>
> --
>  Bastien
>