Re: Programmatically insert source-blocks

[Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>]

Hi, Thorsten,

Here's one way, and pointers to more:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-04/msg00406.html

Yours,
Christian

Thorsten Jolitz writes:

> Hi List, 
>
> it probably a command everybody knows, but I looked for it several times
> and just missed it: 'insert a source-block'. 
>
> I know about Chap. 15.2. of the manual (Easy Templates), thats not what
> I mean. To reformulate my question:
>
> Why doesn't (the most relevant function I have found) 
>
> ,------------------------------------------
> | (org-babel-demarcate-block &optional ARG)
> `------------------------------------------
>
> have a few more optional arguments, e.g. like this
>
> ,----------------------------------------------------------
> | (org-babel-demarcate-block &optional LANG ARG &rest args)
> `----------------------------------------------------------
>
> so that it can be called (e.g.) like this
>
> ,----------------------------------------------------------------------
> | (org-babel-demarcate-block &optional "emacs-lisp" nil :results output)
> `----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> without asking the user for input (inserting a new src-block around
> point or region)? 
>
> There are so many functions that deal with source-blocks, but the most
> basic one - insert a new src-block for language xyz with args u v w - is
> not there. At least not for non-interactive use. At least I did not find
> it ;)