From: "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [babel] `org-babel-tangle-w-comments' controls comment insertion in tangled code
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:57:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aaqunwec.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01CF33E6-A706-47A7-9F85-572AE28EB180@tsdye.com> (Thomas S. Dye's message of "Fri, 28 May 2010 09:17:51 -1000")
Just to make sure we don't lose these idea, I've posed them up in the
babel dev repo
http://eschulte.github.com/babel-dev/PROPOSED-tangle-entire-org-mode-file-in-comments.html
Best -- Eric
"Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com> writes:
> Hi Erik,
>
> I am *not* a programmer so expect considerable chaff for every kernel
> of wheat (no wheat guaranteed).
>
> I would pass the function an org-mode link then write out the contents
> pointed at by the link inside a named code block, with each line
> preceded by an optional comment character. If this were written in a
> general way, then it would be possible to include comments from any
> link--on-line manuals, standards, blogs, etc.--in addition to notes in
> the org-mode file.
>
> If it were written in a very general way, with a transformation
> function responsible for adding the comment character, then a variety
> of transformations might be possible.
>
> I've followed the list long enough to recognize that musings like mine
> are often met by the response that org-mode already does this. For
> all I know, it does!
>
> All the best,
> Tom
>
> On May 28, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Erik Iverson wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Thomas S. Dye wrote:
>>> Hi Erik,
>>> If the proposed functionality places comments in the source code in
>>> whatever order they appear in the org-mode file, then the result
>>> will likely frustrate literate programming efforts that rearrange
>>> code blocks on tangling.
>>
>> Yes, thank you for pointing that out.
>>
>>> Another way to get pieces of the org-mode file into the source file
>>> as comments might be with a little helper function, org-babel-copy-
>>> subtree-to-commented-code. The source blocks could be named so the
>>> literate programming facilities of org-babel could work with them.
>>
>> I'm not following this; could you provide a minimal pseudo-example
>> of how you see this working in practice?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Erik
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-17 3:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-28 14:55 [babel] `org-babel-tangle-w-comments' controls comment insertion in tangled code Eric Schulte
2010-05-28 15:43 ` Erik Iverson
2010-05-28 15:47 ` Erik Iverson
2010-05-28 15:57 ` Eric Schulte
2010-05-28 16:24 ` Erik Iverson
2010-05-28 18:08 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-05-28 18:41 ` Erik Iverson
2010-05-28 19:17 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-06-17 3:57 ` Eric Schulte [this message]
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