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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Olivier Lischer <olivier.lischer@liolin.ch>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ob-tangle: Add flag to optionally remove files before writing
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2024 21:11:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87le89qi2c.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878r49i78e.fsf@liolin.ch>

Olivier Lischer <olivier.lischer@liolin.ch> writes:

>> Thanks for the patch, but may you please explain why introducing such
>> variable is useful?
>
> Sure.
>
> I configure all my .dotfiles in an Org mode file and tangle the
> configuration in the right places. The tangled files are all
> read-only to prevent accidentally editing of the "right" configuration
> file. With the current tangling mechanism, this results in a "Permission
> denied" error because the function writes to a read-only file. In a
> earlier version this use case was possible because the file was
> recreated before writing to it.

Thanks for the explanation!

I suggest changing your patch, setting the default value of
`org-babel-tangle-remove-file-before-write' to 'auto.
This will keep the current behaviour but fall back to delete + write new
file when the tangle target is read-only.
That will avoid feature regression.

-- 
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
Org mode contributor,
Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>.
Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>,
or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2024-01-28 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-23 20:25 [PATCH] ob-tangle: Add flag to optionally remove files before writing Olivier Lischer
2024-01-24 16:38 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-01-28 19:07   ` Olivier Lischer
2024-01-28 21:11     ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2024-01-29 18:32       ` Olivier Lischer
2024-01-30 11:36         ` Ihor Radchenko
     [not found]           ` <87sf1fmwnc.fsf@localhost>
     [not found]             ` <87jzmrggcw.fsf@liolin.ch>
2024-02-28 11:07               ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-02-28 19:01                 ` Olivier Lischer
2024-02-29 10:43                   ` Ihor Radchenko

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