Greg Troxel wrote: > Eric Schulte <schulte.e...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Although purely semantically, in my opinion the "sh" in "#+begin_src sh" >> indicates generic "shell-script", not the POSIX sh. E.g., there is no >> ob-bash.el or ob-csh.el. > > I see your point. But stepping back, I have always felt that > "#+begin_src foo" referred to a language
I'd say, personally, that `foo' would refer to a mode (`foo-mode') [1] which supports one (or multiple) language(s). And I guess that, in Emacs, `sh' is the mode for editing Shell scripts (in sh, bash, zsh, etc.). Though, I'm not 100% sure of what I'm saying here... > sometimes where that language and a particular program are inseparable > (e.g. gnuplot). But sh is a first-class language. > >> See the first line in ob-sh.el, >> ,---- >> | ;;; ob-sh.el --- org-babel functions for shell evaluation >> `---- Best regards, Seb [1] Do C-c ' and see that Org (tries to) call(s) the mode foo-mode. -- Sebastien Vauban
