hs-outorg, a commandline outcommenter

[jedahu]

Hi @alphapapa, fwiw I just wrote an outcommenter in haskell. I'm using it to auto-generate documentation without having to run emacs in batch mode on my build server. https://github.com/jedahu/hs-outorg

[alphapapa]

Hey Jeremy,

That's very cool! And the code is so short, too! I have looked at Haskell in the past but haven't grokked it yet, but this looks like a great example for someone wanting to learn simple text processing.

Does it go in both directions? It doesn't look like it does, but since I'm not much with Haskell, maybe I missed it. If not, have you thought about adding that? It would be cool to have a two-way converter. I could see that being very useful, almost like a poor man's babel tangling.

Thanks for sharing this! I will link to it in the readme. :)

[jedahu]

Only one direction for now as that's my use case. I have to say the other direction is not a priority for me as that's what I use outorg inside Emacs for.

My gettyped project is keeping me quite busy, but if I ever get round to making hs-outorg do the round trip thing I'll certainly let you know.

Babel is pretty awesome, especially being able to interactively evaluate things in a live buffer. But from a program generation point of view it sucks because you have to either run it manually from within Emacs or use batch mode. It would be nice if there was a compatible command line implementation.

[oruppert]

This one is my helper to generate README.org files:

(defun outorg-export-to-org-file ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((buffer (generate-new-buffer "outorg-org-output"))
	(mode major-mode))
    (copy-to-buffer buffer (point-min) (point-max))
    (switch-to-buffer buffer)
    (funcall mode)
    (outorg-convert-to-org)
    (save-buffer)
    (kill-buffer)))