Re: [Orgmode] Re: [IDEA] HTML-export literal examples to textarea

[Carsten Dominik]

So it remains a kind-of specialistic thing.

Maybe Eric would like to add a textarea block to org-export-blocks.el?

- Carsten

On Jan 19, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Ulf Stegemann wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > On Jan 19, 2009, at 8:25 AM, Ulf Stegemann wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Carsten,
> > >
> > > Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> 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).
>
> Ulf
>
>
>
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