Straw poll for emacs / org-mode workflow

[garrison]

@Vincent_Picaud

We will see what happens.

@Vincent_Picaud

in my situation as I do everything under org-mode (reports, slides etc…)

Would you be interested in maintaining ob-julia? The main author is looking to pass on the torch.

[Vincent_Picaud]

@garrison

Would you be interested in maintaining ob-julia?

I fear I am not good enough at Emacs-lisp to provide a quality solution that Julia desserves. I can do ugly fix, but ob-julia.el would need more cleaning, update etc…

For the moment I use the “fix” I described in Stackoverflow. I am also testing ob-ipython. I did not know this Emacs package and it is the very first time I use it.

# Example with ob-julia.el
#+begin_src julia :session :results output drawer 
rand(2,3)
#+end_src
 
#+RESULTS:
:RESULTS:
2×3 Array{Float64,2}:
 0.156528  0.467421  0.919801
 0.134619  0.22031   0.861505
:END:

# Example with ob-ipython.el
#+begin_src jupyter-julia :session :results value drawer
rand(2,3)
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
:RESULTS:
# Out[37]:
#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
  2×3 Array{Float64,2}:
  0.118136  0.345331  0.332554
  0.997373  0.310063  0.908705
#+END_EXAMPLE
:END:

Compared to ob-julia I am suprised that ob-ipython wraps everything in a EXAMPLE block. If I understand well the ob-ipython code I have the feeling this is not customizable. IMHO this default behavior is maybe not the right choice, as it is very easy to wrap babel output (the :wrap “EXAMPLE” as follows)

# Example with ob-julia.el + "EXAMPLE" block wrapping of the output
#+begin_src julia :session :results output drawer :wrap "EXAMPLE"
rand(2,3)
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
2×3 Array{Float64,2}:
 0.831512  0.255936  0.1748  
 0.20797   0.470198  0.131195
#+END_EXAMPLE

[garrison]

@Vincent_Picaud

I fear I am not good enough at Emacs-lisp to provide a quality solution that Julia desserves.

Yeah, this is in part why I suggested in that thread that ob-julia should be as simple as possible, while most of the heavy-lifting should be done by a julia package.

[Vincent_Picaud]

that’s completely right, there is room for a lightweight elisp solution.

[Tamas_Papp]

@ssfrr

I’m using the agenda/scheduling/time-tracking features pretty heavily though - are you aware of any Markdown-based replacements that can do that sort of thing? (also easy table creation).

I don’t think it is possible, as Markdown is essentially a static format. OTOH, org-mode is full of dynamic features that support reflection and self-modification.

@non-Jedi

In short, even without elisp, org-mode functionality is strictly a super-set of markdown functionality.

Certainly. I just prefer Markdown for documents because I find its syntax conventions nicer, and it is also more widely supported (eg Github has better support, so do some other tools). That said, I still use org-mode, but for other purposes (agendas, diaries, etc).