Re: Custom keymaps on org blocks

[John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>]

Nicolas Goaziou writes:

> Hello,
>
> John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>
>> On the other hand, there are times when I am working on a document that has
>> a lot of short code blocks, e.g. for lecture notes or blog posts, where it
>> is sufficiently tedious to me to switch in and out of the special edit mode
>> that I wanted to try this solution out, and it became clear you can't
>> really try it out without modifying the core org code that does the
>> font-locking on a block.
>
> Are you sure about it? There are two hooks related to fontification:
> `org-font-lock-set-keywords-hook' and `org-font-lock-hook'. I'm
> surprised none can help you in this case.

You are totally right on this. I can use org-font-lock-hook to take care
of this. Thanks for the pointer.

>
>> I don't think we have to go so far as to say we make multiple major mode
>> keybindings available, so much as context specific keybindings available
>> where there is value in it. We already have this in org-speed keys for
>> example, and even these can be context specific to do different things on
>> headings (even different things on headings with specific properties) and
>> blocks (
>> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2016/12/22/Context-specific-org-mode-speed-keys/
>> ).
>
> Neat hack.

Thanks!

>
>> If there was a change to org to enable this, I wouldn't expect the core to
>> change behavior for anyone, it would just make it possible for users to
>> change this if they wanted to. The same way they can customize the face of
>> a code block for different languages.
>
> Fair enough. Would you want to provide a proper patch?

With the hook I don't think it is necessary. Thanks for all the
discussion though (everyone) it was helpful to think it through.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> Regards,


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