Grant Rettke writes: > On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 4:53 PM, John Kitchin <jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: >> Is there any interest in having custom keymaps on org blocks? >> >> The idea I had is to have the option to make the major-mode keymaps be >> active on the src blocks. > > You want Polymode: https://github.com/vspinu/polymode
I have never been able to get polymode to work. Do have an incantation that works? > >> I have tried this, and seems ok, and I wondered if anyone had an opinion >> for or against this idea. > > It is confusing alternating between the Org major a mode and the > source block major mode as you scroll through documents. One second > you are an author for humans and the other an author for the computer. > That is how literate programming is defined in theory, but in practice > I don't do it like that because it is mentally jarring. Interesting perspective. I find switching to special edit mode jarring, particularly when it is just for the key bindings, e.g. lispy mode, or getting python indentation to work. > > I spell check my Org-Mode Literate Documents. But the spell checker > does not check source blocks. That is up to the major mode for that > source block, not for the containing literate document. When you think > about it, probably every Org-Mode literate programming has it set up > this way, otherwise the spell checker would go crazy on typical source > code. That is revealing. The source blocks are very different "things" > than the containing document. > > For me the source block is another cognitive workspace that I enter > consciously. I am digging deeper into the document itself. For me the > source block is a window into that world of the source block. In the > top level document I write literature about things, including the > various source blocks. Then I jump into editing the source block > itself. > > John you once had a discussion (or answered a (my?) question) about > making source blocks not-editable. That is how I would like it to work > all the time. That is why I don't fontify source blocks natively and > that is why I wouldn't enjoy what you describe. That is ok, the hack I made is totally optional. If you don't define an alternative map for a block, it just gets the orgmode map. You can even just locally redefine a few key bindings on the org-mode map that are only valid in the block. -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
