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

[Tassilo Horn]

Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:

Hi!

>>>> 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?

I think that something like textareas might be nice sometimes, but I'd
suggest a more general approach.  How about something like

  #+begin_export_html   #+begin_export_html
  \textit{foo}          <textarea>...</textarea>
  #+end_export_html     #+end_export_html  

for each export format, where the latex export would ignore everything
else.  Maybe an "alternative" thingy would be needed, too.  Something
like common lisp's reader macros "#+sbcl" and "#-(or cmu ecl)" could be
used.

Bye,
Tassilo
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