From: Timothy <tecosaur@gmail.com>
To: sebastien.miquel@posteo.eu
Cc: Tom Gillespie <tgbugs@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ob-tangle.el: Speed up tangling
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 16:02:03 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8e883r8.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9dfb44d3-0c4a-6a66-0efa-c70e9434ee5e@posteo.eu>
Sébastien Miquel <sebastien.miquel@posteo.eu> writes:
> On second thought, I'm uneasy about my approach. If tangling fails,
> the user might miss the error message since it is quickly replaced by
> the tangling info. Ideally we should backup all the tangled files and
> restore them all if a single one fails to ensure we're back to a
> consistent state.
>
> I'm unsure what would be best practices here. In case of a remote
> tangled files, I don't know if temporary files should be remote or
> not, and what guarantees do emacs primitives such as ~rename-file~
> offer.
Just 2c from me on how I'd like this to work as a user, when tangling
fails:
+ Every file that could be tangled is tangled, or there's a variable
which controls what to do on an error
+ Loud message at the end that lists all files which files failed to
tangle
--
Timothy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-21 8:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-18 7:22 [PATCH] ob-tangle.el: Speed up tangling Sébastien Miquel
2021-04-18 18:47 ` Tom Gillespie
2021-04-19 8:05 ` Sébastien Miquel
2021-04-20 8:33 ` Tom Gillespie
2021-04-21 6:33 ` Sébastien Miquel
2021-04-21 8:02 ` Timothy [this message]
2021-05-01 15:09 ` Bastien
2021-05-01 20:13 ` Sébastien Miquel
2021-05-01 20:32 ` Bastien
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