For the past couple of months I have been working on Org-Babel, with Dan Davison and (initially) Austin Frank. Through Org-Babel Org-Mode can communicate with programming languages. Code contained in source-code blocks can be evaluated and data can pass seamlessly between different programming languages, Org-Mode constructs (tables, file links, example text) and interactive comint buffers. One part of the project is the "Library of Babel", which will be an extensible collection of ready-made and easily-shortcut-callable source-code blocks for handling common tasks.
Org-Babel provides a unified backend for source-code evaluation from Org-Mode and with the "Library of Babel" does/will... - allow seamless passing of data between source-code blocks and other org-mode constructs (tables, file links, example text) - allow chaining of source-code blocks in different languages - allow calling of source-code blocks from tables - support literate programming (org-babel-tangle) - enable reproducible research (multilingual Sweave-like functionality, i.e. plots and analysis results united with the code to generate them) - replace org-exp-blocks enabling interactive evaluation of blocks - replace org-plot - replace org-R We have been intending to share this with the list once development stabilized, however this has proven to be a moving target as ideas for new development have continually arisen faster than they have been implemented. Given the many recent related threads on list we've decided now is a good time for an initial beta release and development/feedback solicitation. Please find the code at [1] or clone it from [2]. In the base directory of the repo you will find org-babel.org, a monolithic file which contains more information than you could ever want to know about the functionality and development of Org-Babel. If anyone wants to help please send patches to Dan or myself, or contact me for commit access to the repo. Thanks and Enjoy, Eric Schulte and Dan Davison Footnotes: [1] http://github.com/eschulte/org-babel/tree/master [2] git://github.com/eschulte/org-babel.git _______________________________________________ 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