Re: [babel] key binding requests

[Jonathan Arkell <jonathana@criticalmass.com>]

> 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.

> 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.


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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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