AppleScript in Org-Mode source code blocks?

Question

Does anyone know how to setup org-mode so that you can write/process applescript from within org source code blocks? I.e.,

#+BEGIN_SRC applescript

tell application "Emacs"
    [do something amazing]
end tell

#+END_SRC

Thanks!

Answer 1

It's super rough, but I managed to get a very, very basic integration working last night. Hope it is useful: https://github.com/stig/ob-applescript.el -- that should at least give you something to work with.

Answer 2

Not sure if Org Babel supports AppleScript, but it supports bash. You can run applescript from Bash using osascript and a bash heredoc:

#+BEGIN_SRC sh
  osascript <<'END'
  display dialog "Hello, World"
  END
#+END_SRC

SE doesn't allow proper formatting. The END statement should be all the way to the left, with no spaces before it.

Answer 3

Would a bit of indirection be OK? You can use noweb to have an applescript block inserted into a shell block for execution…

#+name: hello-apples
#+BEGIN_SRC apples
display dialog "Hello, World"
#+END_SRC

#+BEGIN_SRC sh :noweb yes :exports both
osascript -e '<<hello-apples>>'
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
: button returned:OK

I'm using apples-mode because it appears to have better font-locking than applescript-mode but you can use either.