So it remains a kind-of specialistic thing.
Maybe Eric would like to add a textarea block to org-export-blocks.el?
- Carsten
On Jan 19, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Ulf Stegemann wrote:
Carsten Dominik <domi...@science.uva.nl> wrote:
On Jan 19, 2009, at 8:25 AM, Ulf Stegemann wrote:
Hi Carsten,
Carsten Dominik <domi...@science.uva.nl> wrote:
On Jan 16, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Ulf Stegemann wrote:
Is it worth thinking about an example block that will be
exported to a
"<p><textarea ...>...</textarea></p>" structure in HTML export?
I was recently playing around with org for online documentation.
The
documents contained lots of literal examples that can be
directly copied
and pasted e.g. into a terminal emu. While example- and src
blocks work
fine, I think that putting this kind of information into a
textarea
would be even better.
Hi Ulf, so far I fail to see what the big advantage would be. Can
you try again to explain?
of course. Generally, selecting text is a bit easier inside an
input box
but the very real advantage is that you can edit inside inputs. This
allows to give literal examples with "variables" that can be changed
directly inside the page before being copied and pasted.
Hmmm, but why would you want to edit them in the text window, if you
will paste them into an editor anyway, where you probably can edit
them a lot easier? Or are you talking about pasting examples
directly into an interpreter input stream?
yes, in the concrete case the documentation was about a rather complex
system and software setup and the "examples" were mainly meant to be
copied and pasted directly into an terminal emu ... with variable
things
like host-, path-, user names an so on. Of course, one could paste
this
in an editor first to change something but as the changes would be
rather minimal this would prove to be a bit clumsy.
Actually nobody seems to do it like this. I asked the target group how
they handle this and they told me, they just selected the text up to
the
first variable, pasted it into the terminal, typed their variable
value
into the terminal and then selected the rest of the example to
complete
their command line(s).
Ulf
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