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Re: [O] "Fortran" missing in "List of supported code block languages"?
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Ista Zahn |
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Re: [O] "Fortran" missing in "List of supported code block languages"? |
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Thu, 14 May 2015 10:01:04 -0400 |
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 8:37 AM, <address@hidden> wrote:
> John Kitchin writes:
>
> > Fortran is supported in the sense that you can edit a block in
> > Fortran mode. But you cannot execute a Fortran block directly
> > afaik. You have to tangle it, compile it and then run the
> > executable.
That is not true, you can in fact execute fortran blocks directly.
ob-fortran.el has been part of org since 2011. IMO it is a
documentation bug that it is not listed as a supported language.
Best,
Ista
>
> Thanks for the precision. I guess it would not hurt to mention this
> kind of details in the doc, to some extent at least.
>
> > For example like this:
> >
> >
> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2014/02/04/Literate-programming-example-with-Fortran-and-org-mode/
>
> Very helpful. Seems to me that having such examples (at least the
> simple one) in the doc would be extremely helpful to beginners.
>