You could probably hack something up with a shell source code block that uses sed to find and display text between two delimiters, and then dump the results to the org-mode file.
On Mar 30, 2011 5:44pm, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info> wrote:
> On 3/30/11 Mar 30 -4:33 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:
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> > Robert Goldman rpgoldman@sift.info> wrote:
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> >> I would like to do the opposite of literate programming (hence the
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> >> subject line!):
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> >> I would like to pull into my org file snippets from a code file. I know
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> >> that org-mode will let me import /entire/ source code files. Is there
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> >> some way to say "Import the region of this file between these two
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> >> delimiters?"
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> >> If not, do you think it would be hard to add this feature? I already
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> >> have the snappy name, after all!
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> > I don't really understand: can't you cut and paste?
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> Yes, but if I cut and paste the text of the code that I am describing
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> may change out from under my text. If I import the code, it stays in
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> sync (at least when the document is exported).
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> Honestly, I was tempted to do the literate programming thing with babel,
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> but was concerned that it might not work well as a multiple-author thing
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> the code and might find org-babel confusing).
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> > And what do you mean that "org-mode will let me import /entire/ source code
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> > files"? Is this a facility other than insert-file? Or are you talking about
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> > the #+INCLUDE mechanism?
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> Yes, I was talking about #+INCLUDE. I was really wondering if there
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> mightn't be something like
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> #+INCLUDE ~/myfile.lisp :from "(defun sample-function" :to "; end
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> sample-function"
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> [sorry --- that's word-wrapped to further obscurity.]
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> cheers,
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> r
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