Re: [O] ob-async

[Alex Bennée]

Ken Mankoff <address@hidden> writes:

> An RSS feed I follow mentioned ob-async here:
> https://github.com/astahlman/ob-async
>
> I haven't seen it mentioned on the list yet. Perhaps others would be
> interested in asynchronous Babel processing. I've seen the feature
> requested often on this list.

This is not the first attempt to my knowledge. I know of:

  - my hacky attempt https://github.com/stsquad/async-org-babel
  - John Kitchen's python specific version 
http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/11/20/Asynchronously-running-python-blocks-in-org-mode/
  - this matlab version 
http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/21301/async-execution-in-org-babel

So I think there have been enough proof of concepts of using async.el
and inserting results at a later date. I think what would be really
useful is some feedback from the org-mode maintainers about the various
approaches and if something generic could be included with org-mode
itself.

Any thoughts?

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Alex Bennée