• State "DONE" from "PROPOSED" 2010-08-29 Sun 18:53
• State "PROPOSED" from "" 2010-03-20 Sat 12:20

Done: see commit b05f8c91fed5d743adf5df787f2b28fb58274bf5

See also org-babel-R show comint buffer patch from Julien Barnier

This patch changes org-babel-switch-to-buffer so that the session and the code edit buffer are shown side-by-side, with point in the code edit buffer. With R, I find this to be the behaviour that I most often want, and I think it will be good for introducing ESS users to org-babel.

I don't know how whether we want to change org-babel-switch-to-buffer as below, or whether we make this functionality available via some other interface (a different function, prefix args, etc).

diff --git a/contrib/babel/lisp/org-babel.el b/contrib/babel/lisp/org-babel.el
index d01e6d6..5121fbc 100644
--- a/contrib/babel/lisp/org-babel.el
+++ b/contrib/babel/lisp/org-babel.el
@@ -281,9 +281,11 @@ of the source block to the kill ring."
     (with-temp-buffer (insert (org-babel-trim body)) (copy-region-as-kill (point-min) (point-max)))
     ;; if called with a prefix argument, then process header arguments
     (if arg (funcall (intern (concat "org-babel-prep-session:" lang)) session params))
-    ;; just to the session using pop-to-buffer
-    (pop-to-buffer (funcall (intern (format "org-babel-%s-initiate-session" lang)) session params))
-    (move-end-of-line 1)))
+    ;; switch to the session using pop-to-buffer
+    (save-excursion
+      (pop-to-buffer (funcall (intern (format "org-babel-%s-initiate-session" lang)) session params))
+      (move-end-of-line 1))
+    (org-edit-src-code)))

 (defalias 'org-babel-pop-to-session 'org-babel-switch-to-session)