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

[Torsten Wagner <torsten.wagner@gmail.com>]

hi,

I gave Xiki a try and it turned out to be an dependency hell on arch
linux. After installing dozen of packages from AUR, I managed to get
it up and running.
Its nice and some of the ideas could be shamelessly stolen for
org/org-babel. E.g. the mouse-support is great and would fit well to
org if we think of emacs on tablets.

However, I think it is in a very very early stage and one would need
to see how it develops. I do not like the ruby-bridge. This looks to
me very fragile and I had bad experience with python. Those bridges
tend to break whenever there is a change on one of the sides ext.
language or emacs. It also changed the entire appearance resp. face of
my emacs session not sure why it did this. Feels a bit invasive and
alienating.

Nevertheless, its good that this kind of things get tested out and
maybe in a future release of Emacs, we can see some of the ideas in
the Emacs core.

Totti



On 20 September 2012 06:49, Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's odd, I get "No org-babel-execute function for sh!".  I think I
> just hadn't require'd ob-sh, and when I did this fixed the problem.
> Thanks!
>
> My point about removing the boilerplate still stands, however.  If I
> have some free time in the next month, I may try to see if I can get
> it removed as I proposed above.
>
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The xiki video is interesting, and I immediately thought of babel.
>>> However, babel sh-mode doesn't have support for execution yet.
>>
>> Not sure what you mean by that. Place cursor in source block and hit C-c, e.g.
>>
>> #+BEGIN_ORG
>> * Shell example
>>
>> #+begin_src sh
>> date
>> #+end_src
>>
>> #+RESULTS:
>> : Wed Sep 19 07:24:17 BST 2012
>>
>> #+END_ORG
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sean
>>
>