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Re: [Orgmode] [babel] key binding requests


From: Eric Schulte
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] [babel] key binding requests
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:53:00 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux)

Hi Jonathan,

Jonathan Arkell <address@hidden> writes:

>> I'm loving the level of polish and sophistication that have been
>> achieved with org-babel.  My entire PhD thesis is currently written in
>> org and org-babel, and it's the best authoring system I've ever used.
>
> Agreed!  Although I am coming from a completely different perspective
> (Developer using it for literate programming), org-babel is, in fact,
> as the kids say, the bomb.
>

That's great to hear :)

>
>> First, in terms of navigation, I would love to have keybindings under
>> the C-c C-v prefix that would navigate to the next and previous babel
>> blocks.  org-babel-goto-named-source-block[fn:1] is great, but a) not
>> all my blocks are named, and b) I don't always remember the name of
>> the block I'm looking for.
>
> One of the things you could do here is to search forward or backward
> for #+BEGIN_SRC.  You could even record a macro to make it.  That
> would at least hold you over till it was developed.
>
> I also agree about completion based on the name of the source block.
> That would be very handy.  If I may be so bold as to piggyback on
> Austins feature request, if the gathering of the candidates happened
> in a separate function from the interactive function that does the
> completion, then it could be used by packages like auto-complete.
>

Thanks for this suggestion, I followed it and my the names for
completion are returned by the functions `org-babel-src-block-names' and
`org-babel-result-names' for code blocks and results respectively.

Cheers -- Eric

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> On Jul 10, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Austin Frank wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I'm loving the level of polish and sophistication that have been
>> achieved with org-babel.  My entire PhD thesis is currently written in
>> org and org-babel, and it's the best authoring system I've ever used.
>>
>> That said, I have a couple of features that I regularly find myself
>> missing.  I wonder whether other folks might also find them useful.
>>
>> First, in terms of navigation, I would love to have keybindings under
>> the C-c C-v prefix that would navigate to the next and previous babel
>> blocks.  org-babel-goto-named-source-block[fn:1] is great, but a) not all my
>> blocks are named, and b) I don't always remember the name of the block
>> I'm looking for.  On that note...
>>
>> Currently, org-babel-goto-named-source-block doesn't currently offer any
>> completion facilities in my setup.  Is there a way to hook it into the
>> rest of org's completion mechanisms so that I can hit tab to complete
>> the names of my source blocks?
>>
>> Finally, to go along with facilities to navigate from source block to
>> source block, I'd also make regular use of something like
>> org-execute-src-block-and-step, which would execute the current block
>> and then jump to the next (or previous) one.
>>
>> Thanks again for these excellent tools,
>> /au
>>
>> Footnotes:
>>
>> [fn:1] This is the only function that uses "source" instead of "src" in
>> its name.  Should this be changed for consistency?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Austin Frank
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