On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Ulf Stegemann wrote: > Carsten Dominik wrote: > >> On Jan 19, 2009, at 8:25 AM, Ulf Stegemann wrote: >> >>> Hi Carsten, >>> >>> Carsten Dominik 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).
Ditto. Some of the documents I prepared for a team to follow was also used exactly like that: copy-paste a small section, enter some text by hand in terminal, copy-paste the remaining portion. What happens when you edit the text in text area and save the HTML file? Does the modification get saved? In any case, seems like a useful option to have. Seconded. -- Manish _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
