Re: [Orgmode] can't get source code editing working

[Carsten Dominik]

On May 25, 2008, at 10:04 PM, Dan Davison wrote:
> I agree, this sounds great. I was just about to start trying to  
> combine org and latex usage in any case. However I'm being dense.  
> I've done git pull && make && make install, and I have org-version  
> equal to 6.04b. OK so far, right? Now I create an org file containing
>
> * section 1
>  #+BEGIN_SRC latex
>  \log p(z|x,\theta)
>  #+END_SRC
> * section 2
>  #+BEGIN_SRC r
>  xor <- function(a,b) (a | b) & !(a & b)
>  #+END_SRC
> * section 3
>  #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
>  (defun org-xor (a b)
>  "Exclusive or."
>  (if a (not b) b))
>  #+END_SRC
>
> but despite repeated invocations of /C-c '/ and org-edit-special and  
> org-edit-src-example, with point in various places, I haven't  
> brought up a narrowed buffer in the requested mode. Instead I get
> C-c ' can do nothing useful here. (from C-c ' and org-edit-special)  
> and silence from org-edit-src-example

The #+begin and #+end lines must start in column 0,
you have whitespace in front of them.

If you load the org-mtags.el module, you can also use
a Muse-like syntax:

  <src lang="latex">


  </src>

these may be indented.

HTH

- Carsten