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From: "Berry, Charles" <ccberry@ucsd.edu>
To: Diego Zamboni <diego@zzamboni.org>
Cc: Org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
	Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: Including file from a macro?
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 16:42:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <80F84BD4-6250-48AB-B1DC-5E07BF599DD7@ucsd.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGY83Ec1ao3ct3QsTtosbLLbDrU+p7vrc9+oYThFegNYj7dEJw@mail.gmail.com>



> On Jun 27, 2018, at 2:28 AM, Diego Zamboni <diego@zzamboni.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Nicolas,
> 
> (sorry for repeat- resending reply to list)
> 
> Thanks for the clarification. Do you think there could be a way to achieve what I need (basically what was shown in my question). I would to build a summary file with links and selected paragraphs from multiple other files in the same directory (use case: I want to automate the creation of README.org at https://github.com/zzamboni/elvish-modules/, among others). I can do the headline/include by hand (or using YAsnippets maybe), but I thought it would be much easier to just automate this with macros.
> 


You can do this:

#+MACRO: include (eval (org-export-string-as (concat "#+include: " $1 "\n") 'org t))

and then 

{{{include("myfile.org" :lines "1-10")}}}

will drop those lines into the file as the output of an export to `org'. You will need to customize export backends to include `org'. Or you can use some other backend if you put the macro call inside an export block.

However, the results may be surprising - macros defined in the main document will not function in the included document unless you also defined them there, babel code will run out of sync with babel in the main document, and so on.  I am not sure how this might affect internal hyperlinks, so try some cases if you need that to work before you commit to doing something like this.

So unless what you are doing inside the included document is pretty tame, it may not offer you all that you want.

HTH,

Chuck


> Thanks for any ideas.
> --Diego
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:01 AM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Diego Zamboni <diego@zzamboni.org> writes:
> 
> > Is it possible to use "#+include" from within a macro?
> 
> No, it isn't. Include keywords are expanded before macros.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Nicolas Goaziou
> 

     prev parent reply	other threads:[~2018-06-27 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-27  7:57 Including file from a macro? Diego Zamboni
2018-06-27  8:01 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-06-27  9:28   ` Diego Zamboni
2018-06-27 16:42     ` Berry, Charles [this message]

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