Oh, actually that wasn't the issue. org-babel-load-file seems to force tangling the file to an .el. org-babel-tangle-file doesn't. Is there a way to force the output to the .el file without using the parameter in the code block itself? Thanks! On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa < celoserpa@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > Stupid me. There was a syntax error in the code block -- "emacs_lisp" > instead of "emacs-lisp". > > Thank you for taking your time to answer it, though! > > - Marcelo. > > > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote: > >> Aloha Marcelo, >> >> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa writes: >> >> > Hi list, >> > >> > I have a simple babel file with an Emacs Lisp code block, that looks >> like >> > this: >> > >> > peepopen-config.org: >> > >> > >> > * Load it >> > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs_lisp >> > (add-to-list 'load-path (concat fullofcaffeine-vendor-dir >> "/peepopen")) >> > (require 'peepopen) >> > (textmate-mode) >> > #+END_SRC >> > >> > (provide 'peepopen-config) >> > >> > >> > I'm trying to tangle it with (org-babel-tangle-file " >> peepopen-config.org"), >> > but I get the following in the "Messages" buffer: >> > >> > Tangled 0 code blocks from peepopen-config.org >> > >> > >> > I'm confused, since the file *does* contain a code block. Am I doing >> > something wrong? >> >> Not really, but you do need to tell Babel you want to tangle this code >> block. See the header argument :tangle, which by default is set to >> `no'. If you add :tangle yes to the code block header, then it should >> do what you want. >> >> hth, >> Tom >> >> > >> > Thanks in advance, >> > >> > - Marcelo. >> > Hi list, >> > >> > >> > I have a simple babel file with an Emacs Lisp code block, that looks >> > like this: >> > >> > peepopen-config.org: >> > >> > >> > * Load it >> > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs_lisp >> > (add-to-list 'load-path (concat fullofcaffeine-vendor-dir >> > "/peepopen")) >> > (require 'peepopen) >> > (textmate-mode) >> > #+END_SRC >> > >> > (provide 'peepopen-config) >> > >> > >> > I'm trying to tangle it with (org-babel-tangle-file >> > "peepopen-config.org"), but I get the following in the "Messages" >> > buffer: >> > >> > Tangled 0 code blocks from peepopen-config.org >> > >> > >> > I'm confused, since the file *does* contain a code block. Am I doing >> > something wrong? >> > >> > Thanks in advance, >> > >> > - Marcelo. >> > >> > >> > >> >> -- >> Thomas S. Dye >> http://www.tsdye.com >> > >