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Show HN: Emacs org mode integration with IPython

92 points| gregsexton | 10 years ago |github.com

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gjm11|10 years ago

enupten, you appear to be hellbanned (i.e., your comments are auto-killed so that they won't be visible to people other than you unless they have the "showdead" option on).

This appears to have happened about 2 days ago, I would guess because someone regarded your comments about India and/or "Hinduphobia" as inflammatory or over-political. (Which is not the same as being incorrect.)

It is possible that you may be able to get reinstated by contacting the HN admins and (if appropriate) either defending your comments or promising to change.

[EDITED to add: enupten's comment here was perfectly innocuous: s/he was asking for comparisons with TeXmacs which has kinda-IPython-like facilities for embedding an interpreter in a document. I haven't looked hard at either, but my feeling is that this and IPython-in-org-mode are solving rather different problems: nice typography in one, nice interaction in the other.]

mattdeboard|10 years ago

Can I please beg and beseech you to please use git version tagging (semver.org is a good place to start) and MELBA stable for your package releases?

jonrx|10 years ago

That is neat! Thank you so much for this.

Learning to embrace org was a long and arid journey (it can do so much you quickly get lost in the process). Babel was the first extension I really enjoyed to use from day 1. It is what I expected from a literate programming tool.

I've never much used IPython but I heard a lot of praise about it. I guess it's the perfect timing to jump in.

Are you planning on adding to the languages' page? [1]

[1] : http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages.html

nekopa|10 years ago

Can you recommend any specific resources that helped you get a handle on org?

wz1000|10 years ago

Can you use different kernels with this?

buster|10 years ago

Stuff like this always amazes me and makes me glad i switched to Emacs not too recently ago. I begin to grasp why Emacs is its own OS and that's even a nice thing! (fwiw, nowadays Emacs is my mail client and my go to editor/IDE)

agentultra|10 years ago

Welcome to the fold. Emacs is basically a lisp image with a built-in text editor. You can even write web servers in it (and people have).

The utility of such a system beyond just editing one or text files at a time is enormous.

Enjoy your stay.

brobdingnagian|10 years ago

IPython Notebook can export a report to PDF with syntax highlighted code - can this?

pyre|10 years ago

Probably. You can mark code blocks in .org files with the Emacs "mode" for them, and they will be highlighted appropriately (and you can use a shortcut to open a new buffer in said mode just to edit that block). I imagine that if PDF export exists (I assume it does), this would map to it.

nekopa|10 years ago

Is it possible to set up something like this for Vim? I am devoting this summer to learning one editor in depth, and I was thinking of going with Vim because it is on servers everywhere. But I've also chosen to deep dive into python and I love the ipython notebooks, so this could be handy

yenda|10 years ago

Stop with this "vim is on server everywhere", only vi is and it's pretty much useless compare to vim outside of text editing. Plus with emacs you edit the server directly from your machine via ssh with tramp, you don't ssh then open emacs on the server

dagw|10 years ago

going with Vim because it is on servers everywhere

No it really isn't. At best you can probably rely on vi being on most *nix servers, but vi is not vim. So if that is your reasoning make sure you learn vi and not (only) vim.

Also if you are in a position where you might be dropped into some older and more obscure environments, make sure you have at least a working knowledge of ed.

enupten|10 years ago

Neat! Can people in the know share their experience with TeXmacs which is supposed to do very similar stuff ?