Re: [O] Source blocks for tiny snippets

[suvayu ali]

Hi Eric,

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 18:08, Eric Schulte <address@hidden> wrote:
> suvayu ali <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I was wondering what people do when they need to put a few (1 or 2)
>> lines of code snippets in org files? I like the syntax highlighting one
>> gets in an org buffer and in HTML export with code blocks. Is there some
>> work around other than have code blocks for every line I want to
>> include?
>>
>> As an example consider this paragraph:
>>
>> Edit job options for number of events and other configurations
>> : $ $EDITOR $GAUSSOPTS/<options_files>.py
>> The number of events in a job can be customised with the option
>> : LHCbApp().EvtMax = nEvts
>> To run the generator only, set the property below.
>> : Gauss().Phases = ["Generator"]
>> To turn on full monitoring and dump an ntuple to a root file, include
>> the opts files as below. It can be customised further to suit the needs.
>> : importOptions('$GAUSSOPTS/<some>.opts')
>>
>> In the above example you have a mix of bash and python snippets.
>>
>
> Currently there is no more concise way to specify code blocks other than
> the normal code block format.  Although it doesn't currently exist maybe
> an option could be added to hide the #+BEGIN/END_SRC lines so that they
> don't appear in the buffer.  That combined with a helper for specifying
> code blocks (I use yasnippets for this) should serve.
>

Thanks for the confirmation. I can live with example lines for now. :)

-- 
Suvayu

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