>> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>
 >> on Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:32:19 +0200 wrote:

 > Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:

 > [snip (54 lines)]

 >>>>> ,----
 >>>>> |  (defvar org-babel-tangled-file nil
 >>>>> |      "If non-nill, current file was tangled with org-babel-tangle")
 >>>>> |    (put 'org-babel-tangled-file 'safe-local-variable 'booleanp)
 >>>>> |    
 >>>>> |    (defun org-babel-mark-file-as-tangled ()
 >>>>> |      (add-file-local-variable 'org-babel-tangled-file t)
 >>>>> |      (basic-save-buffer))
 >>>>> | 
 >>>>> |    (add-hook 'org-babel-post-tangle-hook 'org-babel-mark-file-as-tangled)
 >>>>> `----
 >>>>> 
 >>> 
 >>> I think the above code should be considered an implementation rather
 >>> than simply a test.  This is exactly what the post-tangle hook is
 >>> intended to support.  Is there a motivating reason for this behavior to
 >>> be "built in"?
 >> 
 >> As pointed out, I think the possibility to easily add local variables to
 >> the tangled file, will be valuable. I would opt for an the buil-in
 >> option, as this could e.g. be used to set the file read-only in emacs,
 >> adding svn information, etc.
 >> 
 >> This could be achieved by supplying one variable containing strings,
 >> which contains the names of the local variables to be added and their values.
 >> 
 >> For the time being, I will add the suggested code to my emacs.org.

 > I stumbled upon one problem, though: I want to mame the tengled file,
 > when nopened in emacs, to have the minor mode auto-revert-mode. So I did
 > the following, which obviously did not work:

 > ,----
 > | (defvar org-babel-tangled-file nil
 > |     "If non-nill, current file was tangled with org-babel-tangle")
 > |   (put 'org-babel-tangled-file 'safe-local-variable 'booleanp)
 > |     
 > |   (defun org-babel-mark-file-as-tangled ()
 > |     (add-file-local-variable 'org-babel-tangled-file t)
 > |     (add-file-local-variable 'buffer-read-only t)
 > |     (add-file-local-variable 'eval: (auto-revert-mode))
 > |     (basic-save-buffer))
 > |   
 > |   (add-hook 'org-babel-post-tangle-hook 'org-babel-mark-file-as-tangled)
 > `----

 > So is tere a way, of adding the line 

 > ,----
 > | eval: (auto-revert-mode)
 > `----

 > to the file local variables, so that emacs sutomatically enables
 > auto-revert-mode?

 > Thanks,

 > Rainer

 >> 
 >>> 
 >> 
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