Hello Chuck,

Thank you for the feedback.

> You might want to check that point and mark are both inside the src
block. Otherwise, the results are unpredictable.
You are right, I've updated the patch.

> ess-mode, python-mode, sh-mode and octave-mode already provide this
capability (and a lot more) for R, python, shell scripts, octave/matlab and
some other languages from the edit buffer.
I understand that. My idea is to avoid the need to C-c ' back and forth.
Actually that's a problem I have with org-babel; I usually find myself
coding inside the src block and losing many of the major mode
functionalities; switching to the edit buffer often seem too much of a
hassle. Any tips about how to get more major-mode functionalities inside
the src-block? Or should I develop the muscle memory to switch back and
forth to the edit buffer all the time?

> `org-babel-demarcate-block' gives the user the ability to break up src
blocks into smaller pieces so they can be run independently.
Thanks for pointing that; I didn't know about `org-babel-demarcate-block'.

Best,

Carlos

2015-11-02 13:19 GMT-05:00 Charles C. Berry <ccberry@ucsd.edu>:

> On Sun, 1 Nov 2015, Carlos Henrique Machado S Esteves wrote:
>
> Hello, I find it useful to be able to execute only a region of a source
>> code block, so I've implemented a new function for that. I've tested it
>> with MATLAB and Python, but it should work for any mode, since it calls
>> org-babel-execute-src-block.
>>
>>
> You might want to check that point and mark are both inside the src block.
> Otherwise, the results are unpredictable.
>
> Also note that:
>
> ess-mode, python-mode, sh-mode and octave-mode already provide this
> capability (and a lot more) for R, python, shell scripts, octave/matlab and
> some other languages from the edit buffer.
>
> `org-babel-demarcate-block' gives the user the ability to break up src
> blocks into smaller pieces so they can be run independently.
>
> Best,
>
> Chuck
>
>