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Subject: Re: babel properties and inheritance
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:19:59 +0000
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> On Jul 12, 2018, at 4:13 AM, Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> Hi Org List,
>=20
> I'm confused about the inheritance behavior of babel properties.
>=20
>> From the MWE below, I'd expect :tangle to take effect at the heading lev=
el (it does), but :tangle-mode and :comments to apply to the whole file. Th=
ey do not have any effect. It doesn't seem to matter if I turn on or off or=
g-use-property-inheritance. In either case, :comments are not tangled, and =
the file mode is not 755.
>=20
>  -k.
>=20
> MWE =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>=20
> #+PROPERTY: header-args: :tangle debug.sh :tangle-mode (identity #o755) :=
comments org
........................^...

Delete the colon. Then C-c C-c (which I often forget!)

then use `:header-args+:' for any heading to avoid clobbering the args you =
do not wish to change.

Chuck =