Re: [O] markup text with leading, trailing spaces

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

hymie! writes:

> I'd like to be able to have a series of commands in my raw org 
> file that I can copy-n-paste into my shell window.  But I also 
> like to export my org files to HTML so that I can make ePubs and 
> keep them in my iPad.

> And this
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC
>   command1
>   command2
>   command3
> #+END_SRC
>
> is just IMO ugly.

It shouldn't be. Try adding the word "shell" after BEGIN_SRC, so 
that it fontifies the code correctly (the variable 
org-src-fontify-natively should be set to t, but that has been 
default for a while). Also, add shell to the loaded babel 
languages, so that you can execute the code and get the results 
right away in org:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
 (org-babel-do-load-languages
 'org-babel-load-languages
      '((shell . t)))
#+END_SRC

No need for "copy-n-paste", just do C-c C-c where you have your 
commands. 

Another added benefit is that it is way easier to add the shell 
scripts inside a SRC block after you press C-c ' (C-c ' again to 
go back to your org file), since then you will have the power of 
Shell-script mode available, for example:

C-c (    to define a function
C-c TAB  for an if statement
C-c C-l  for an indexed loop

Try copying this example into an org file, it should fontify it 
nicely, both in the org file and in the html exported.

#+BEGIN_SRC shell
 echo "hello"
 cd
 ls
 n=1
 while [ $n -le 10 ]; do
     echo $n
     n=$(( n + 1 ))
 done
 echo "bye"
#+END_SRC

Best,

--
Jorge.