From: Toby Cubitt <tsc25@cantab.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Simplify repeated same section with different variable value
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:43:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120424134359.GA28789@c3po> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F96A438.6070703@gmail.com>
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 03:01:44PM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote:
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> On 24/04/12 14:36, Myles English wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:22:48 +0200, Rainer M Krug said:
> >
> >> Hi I have a section which I want to repeat for different variable
> >> values. At the moment I am copying them, but I do not like it at
> >> all:
> >
> >> ** Species one :PROPERTIES: :var: SPECIES="sp1" :END: *** Data
> >> Checks Here is some text #+header: :results output #+begin_src R
> >> checkData(species=SPECIES) #+end_src
> >
> >
> >> ** Species 2 :PROPERTIES: :var: SPECIES="sp2" :END: *** Data Checks
> >> Here is some text #+header: :results output #+begin_src R
> >> checkData(species=SPECIES) #+end_src
> >
> >
> >> I am sure there must be an easier way with org?
> >
> > How about using yasnippet?
>
> Yasnippets would help in filling the file with the repeated code - but
> if I want to change e.g. "some text" to "some more text", I still have
> to do it manually. Nevertheless, if I could define the org section once
> and repeat it with different variable values, this would enable me to
> change it only once.
I don't personally know of an org-specific way. But you can do amazing
things with `query-replace-regexp' in Emacs, especially the \# and \,
escapes which, respectively, let you embed the replacement counter and
arbitrary elisp code in the replacement string. (See the docstring or
Emacs manual for details.)
Whether you consider writing regexps and elisp snippets "easier" is open
to debate...
Toby
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Complutense University
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-24 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-24 12:22 Simplify repeated same section with different variable value Rainer M Krug
2012-04-24 12:36 ` Myles English
2012-04-24 13:01 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-04-24 13:43 ` Toby Cubitt [this message]
[not found] ` <r.m.krug@gmail.com>
2012-04-24 14:44 ` Nick Dokos
2012-04-24 22:25 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2012-04-25 8:57 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-08-22 15:01 ` remove all #+RESULTS blocks in a file? Nick Dokos
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2012-08-22 13:25 Rainer M Krug
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