Org-babel is making use of the C-c C-v key binding. All Org-babel keybindings are located behind this prefix.

Help

• C-c C-v h: Describe all key bindings behind Org Babel key prefix.

Edit the code

• C-c ': Edit the code block in a dedicated buffer.

• C-c C-v C-x (or C-c C-v x): Read key sequence and execute the command in edit buffer (in the language major mode).

  For example:

  • C-c C-v C-x TAB (or C-c C-v x TAB): Insert a language-native TAB in code block.

  • C-c C-v C-x M-; (or C-c C-v x M-;): Comment region according to language.

  • C-c C-v C-x C-M-\ (or C-c C-v x C-M-\): Indent region according to language.

• C-c C-v d (or C-c C-v C-d): Demarcate code block (i.e., wrap the region in a block, or split the block around point).

• C-c C-v C-M-h: Mark (= select) the whole code block.

• C-c C-v I (or C-c C-v C-I): Display information on the current source block. This includes header arguments, language and name.

• C-c C-v j (or C-c C-v C-j): Insert a header argument and its value using completing read in the minibuffer.

  (defun my-org-babel-deactivate ()
    (interactive)
    (org-babel-insert-header-arg "eval" "never")
    (org-babel-insert-header-arg "tangle" "no"))
  

• C-c C-v c (or C-c C-v C-c): Check for suspicious (that is, unknown or misspelled) header arguments. This may prove useful if you get into the habit of using it as your first step in debugging code blocks.

  Languages are permitted to add and use any arbitrary new header argument, so there is no wrong (that is, disallowed) header argument.

SHA1 hash

• C-c C-v a (or C-c C-v C-a): View SHA1 hash of the current code block.

You could use the hash returned by that function to manually replace the original one in the block, and avoid reevaluating the block in case of purely cosmetic changes.

Navigate

• C-c C-v g: Go to a named code block (with completing read).

  The target src block is guessed from:

  1. noweb reference
  2. #+call:
  3. #+results:
  4. symbol-at-point

  if one of these is found (in that order).

  The point being pushed to the org-mark-ring, you can return to it with C-c &.

• C-c C-v r (or C-c C-v C-r): Go to a named result (with completing read).

• C-c C-v n (or C-c C-v C-n): Go to the next code block.

• C-c C-v p (or C-c C-v C-p): Go to the previous code block.

• C-c C-v u (or C-c C-v C-u): Go to the beginning of the current code block (jump to the enclosing structural block).

Execute (or “evaluate”)

• C-c C-v b (or C-c C-v C-b): Evaluate all the code blocks in the current buffer.

• C-c C-v s (or C-c C-v C-s): Evaluate all the code blocks in the current subtree.

• C-c C-v e (or C-c C-v C-e): Evaluate the code block at point.

  With C-u C-c C-v C-e, forcibly re-evaluate the block (marked :cache).

Tangle

• C-c C-v t (or C-c C-v C-t): Tangle all the code blocks in current file.

  Run the tangle with a prefix argument (e.g., C-u C-c C-v t) to only tangle the block under your cursor (current code block).

  Press C-u C-u C-c C-v t to tangle all blocks belonging to the target file of the block at point (that is, having the same tangle file name).

• C-c C-v f (or C-c C-v C-f): Tangle all the code blocks in supplied file.

In many languages constructs like are valid code, so it would be inappropriate for tangling to raise errors by default. It is possible to turn on such errors on a language-by-language basis, by customizing the variable org-babel-noweb-error-langs (list of languages for which Babel will raise literate programming errors when the source code block satisfying a noweb reference in this language can not be resolved).

View the results

• C-c C-v v (or C-c C-v C-v): View the expanded body of the code block at point. This view of code blocks is not editable.

  This facility of previewing the expanded contents is useful for debugging.

• C-c C-v o (or C-c C-v C-o): Open the results of the code block at point.

• C-c C-v C-z (or <M-down>): Switch to the session buffer of the current code block (first, you need to add :session to it).

  Use C-u C-c C-v C-z to bring up the session with the input variable pre-loaded.

• C-c C-v z (variant of C-c C-v C-z): Split the window between:

  • the session buffer, and
  • a language major-mode edit buffer for the code block in question.

  This can be convenient for using language major mode for interacting with the session buffer.

• C-c C-v k: Delete code block results, inline code block results, and call line results.

  When called without a prefix argument, it only applies to the current code block.

  When called with a prefix argument, it applies to the entire buffer.

Library of Babel

• C-c C-v i (or C-c C-v C-i): Ingest all named code blocks from supplied file into the Library of Babel (in memory).

• C-c C-v l (or C-c C-v C-l or <M-up>): Load the current code block into the Library of Babel and enter the session.