From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Maier Subject: Re: [BABEL] Tangling to a hierarchy of files? Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 06:59:29 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87tyh5icir.fsf@gmail.com> <4D36B76D.9020502@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51755 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PfWhN-0004YE-EI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 06:59:38 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PfWhH-000194-7c for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 06:59:32 -0500 Received: from mail-pv0-f169.google.com ([74.125.83.169]:46408) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PfWhH-00016L-2q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 06:59:31 -0500 Received: by pvc30 with SMTP id 30so183279pvc.0 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:59:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D36B76D.9020502@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Rainer M Krug Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, "Charles C. Berry" On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > On 01/19/2011 08:22 AM, Eric Schulte wrote: >> >> In addition to the solution Charles posted, it is possible to put >> arbitrary elisp forms into header arguments, so the following >> alternative to your block above will create the directory (if it doesn't >> already exist) whenever the block is tangled or evaluated. >> >> #+begin_src clojure :tangle (prog1 "src/foo.clj" (make-directory "src" "= .")) >> =A0 (ns foo) >> >> =A0 (defn my-inc [x] >> =A0 =A0 (+ x 1)) >> #+end_src This will do what I'm looking for, thanks! Is there a place where this and the eval-on-startup trick Charles posted are documented? If so, I missed it, and these are both really useful to know. > Would it be possible, to include this into tangling, i.e. if the folder > in which the source file should be created does not exist, create it? > > I remember vaguely a discussion along these lines some time ago, but I > don't remember the outcome? This would be a great feature to have. Eric's embedded Lisp code trick will do the job, but I can imagine that it would get cumbersome for more complex projects. Thanks for all the help, everyone! Chris