Hello, John Kitchin <jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> On the other hand, there are times when I am working on a document that has > a lot of short code blocks, e.g. for lecture notes or blog posts, where it > is sufficiently tedious to me to switch in and out of the special edit mode > that I wanted to try this solution out, and it became clear you can't > really try it out without modifying the core org code that does the > font-locking on a block. Are you sure about it? There are two hooks related to fontification: `org-font-lock-set-keywords-hook' and `org-font-lock-hook'. I'm surprised none can help you in this case. > I don't think we have to go so far as to say we make multiple major mode > keybindings available, so much as context specific keybindings available > where there is value in it. We already have this in org-speed keys for > example, and even these can be context specific to do different things on > headings (even different things on headings with specific properties) and > blocks ( > http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2016/12/22/Context-specific-org-mode-speed-keys/ > ). Neat hack. > If there was a change to org to enable this, I wouldn't expect the core to > change behavior for anyone, it would just make it possible for users to > change this if they wanted to. The same way they can customize the face of > a code block for different languages. Fair enough. Would you want to provide a proper patch? Thank you. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou