[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [O] [babel] By default, code blocks should not be evaluated during e
From: |
Nick Dokos |
Subject: |
Re: [O] [babel] By default, code blocks should not be evaluated during export |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:28:58 -0400 |
Eric Schulte <address@hidden> wrote:
> Paul Sexton <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >
> > Having just crashed my Emacs session 5 times in a row trying to get
> > a file containing a BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp ... END_SRC *code example*
> > to export to HTML...
> >
> > I strongly feel it should default to nil.
> >
>
> I can understand your frustration, however while the above does not
> default to nil, the default babel header argument do not evaluate code
> on export. See C-h v `org-babel-default-header-args'
> >
> > I also feel that "executable code block" and "quoted code example that I
> > would
> > like to display/export with pretty syntax highlighting" are two very
> > different
> > concepts, and should have different block names.
> >
> > eg #+BEGIN_EXEC for the executable blocks?
> > or allow an argument to example blocks, eg "#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE python" ?
> >
>
> I very strongly disagree with this suggestion. As I see it code blocks
> hold code. The use of the code is secondary to the content of the
> block, and a header argument is an appropriate place to hold such usage
> information. Also, it is common to switch between exporting results and
> exporting code, and it would be onerous to change the code-block name.
> Finally, this would complicate all of the current code block handling
> code, having two separate blocks for a single semantic entity.
>
FWIW, I agree with Eric (modulo any bugs that might exist of course) -
otherwise babel loses much of its appeal for literate programming.
There are a couple of questions that need to be answered however:
o why is the code block evaluated during export in Paul's case? That may
be a result of Paul's config or a bug in babel - in either case, that
should be easy to fix and Eric addressed that.
o why did Paul's emacs session crash? That might be an emacs bug that
will need to be addressed. Even if Paul's elisp code is completely
broken, *it should not crash emacs*. Paul, can you post the code?
Actually, the whole org file if that's possible, as well as emacs and
org version?
Thanks,
Nick