[Orgmode] Re: allow emacs-lisp results to be pretty-printed

[Eric Schulte]

Benjamin Andresen <address@hidden> writes:

> I was talking about language specific documentation. I don't think every
> language mode should be documented at [1]. That could become very big and
> cumbersome to look through.
>

agreed

>
> Yesterday I added a section called "Language specific documentation" under
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/org-babel.php#reference-and-documentation
>
> And have the header arguments linked from there to here (first example):
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/org-babel-screen.php#header-arguments
>

Ah, now I understand.  That looks great.

> >
>> WRT the pp patch for emacs-lisp, I think it is an excellent addition and
>> in fact I think that it points to a more general need.  Languages should
>> have the option of returning values as they would appear when written in
>> the language.  That is how they would be printed in a source-code file.
>> This seems to be what your pp patch does for emacs-lisp.  In fact such
>> output should be wrapped in a #+begin/end-src block for fontification of
>> the results on export.
>
>>
>> Would you feel like attempting this change?  If not I will add it to the
>> TODO section of the babel development file on worg.
>
> I'm not comfortable enough with tackling that yet.
>

fair enough, I'll add this to the list of TODOs for Org-babel and
hopefully take a look at implementing something soon.  Thanks -- Eric

>
>>
>> Thanks! -- Eric
>
> br,
> benny
>
>>
>> Footnotes: 
>> [1]  http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/org-babel.php#header-arguments