From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Subject: Re: Include does not work when doing org-export-as-org
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:51:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6501.1318351884@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Henry Hirsch <henry.hirsch@adition.com> of "Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:09:35 +0200." <20111011160935.GA26914@olymp.office.virtualminds.de>
Henry Hirsch <henry.hirsch@adition.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:37:54AM -0400, Nick Dokos wrote:
> > What is *your* use case? That is not at all clear, so far at least.
> >
> > Nick
>
> I want to apply the don't repeat yourself (dry) principle to my org files.
> For the documentation of software quality I have huge org documents
> with a lot of tables which tend to repeat themselves since I
> have to document the same parameters in different environments.
>
> To prevent having to go through a lot of lines and files every time I
> add a parameter to be documented or change anything else on the table
> for that matter.
>
> I would like to export it to an org file and have it put the included
> files in that file. And while I realy don't get why org-export-as-org
> does not do this. I am sure implementing this does not need to break
> established api. It could very well be added as a seperate function.
>
> If this needs any more clarification I will contribute every
> information I can. Also I understand that there is not much motivation
> to implement this since nobody besides me seems to mind the
> absence of the functionality.
>
The following should do basically what you want, but there are several
assumptions built into it: it assumes that
1) you are visiting the buffer of the top file (a.org in your example).
2) there is a file associated with the buffer (i.e. (buffer-file-name)
returns a path, not nil).
3) the file is named something like "/path/to/my/file.org" and the
output file is named "/path/to/my/file.I.org"
4) the output file is sacrificial: it is *clobbered* by the function.
5) if there is narrowing in effect, only the narrowed portion is processed.
There may be other limitations as well.
Nick
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(defun org-to-org-handle-includes ()
"Copy the contents of the current buffer to OUTFILE,
recursively processing #+INCLUDEs."
(let* ((s (buffer-string))
(fname (buffer-file-name))
(ofname (format "%s.I.org" (file-name-sans-extension fname))))
(setq result
(with-temp-buffer
(insert s)
(org-export-handle-include-files-recurse)
(buffer-string)))
(find-file ofname)
(delete-region (point-min) (point-max))
(insert result)
(save-buffer)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-11 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-11 12:38 Include does not work when doing org-export-as-org Henry Hirsch
2011-10-11 13:41 ` Nick Dokos
2011-10-11 13:53 ` Henry Hirsch
2011-10-11 14:01 ` Henry Hirsch
2011-10-11 14:09 ` Nick Dokos
2011-10-11 14:18 ` Nick Dokos
2011-10-11 14:21 ` Nick Dokos
2011-10-11 14:27 ` Nick Dokos
2011-10-11 14:34 ` Henry Hirsch
[not found] ` <henry.hirsch@adition.com>
2011-10-11 14:57 ` Nick Dokos
2011-10-11 15:09 ` Henry Hirsch
2011-10-11 15:37 ` Nick Dokos
2011-10-11 16:09 ` Henry Hirsch
2011-10-11 16:51 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2011-10-12 7:44 ` Henry Hirsch
2011-10-12 10:15 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-10-21 16:49 ` Bastien
2011-10-21 17:14 ` Nick Dokos
2011-10-11 18:27 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-10-11 14:22 ` Henry Hirsch
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