From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-org list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: mirror text in same/other org buffer
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 11:40:35 +0000 [thread overview]
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On Wed, Nov 22, 2017, 4:55 AM Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi alll
>
Hello
Im looking for a way to to mirror/auto populate a section of text in
> another location in the same org buffer and/or other org file.
>
> for example, i manage my config files in org mode for multiple machines. i
> want to have a section like this
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC conf :mkdirp yes :tangle ~/machine A
> CODE
> #+END_SRC
> where the same content of CODE is mirroed/auto generated in another code
> block for machine B
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC conf :mkdirp yes :tangle ~/machine B
> CODE
> #+END_SRC
>
> is this in anyway possible?
>
You cannot have real-time mirroring of content in the Org file itself.
But you can implement that DRY model by using Noweb references (See the
"Noweb reference syntax" node in the Org manual).
You can put the CODE in a separate src block with :noweb-ref set to foo,
and then wherever in other code blocks you want to mirror that, you simply
put <<foo>>.
As I said you won't see the mirroring happen live in the Org buffer. But
you will see the mirroring done in the exported files.
PS: For non-code mirroring (in exported files), there's also do:
#+INCLUDE: "./can-be-same-file.org::#CUSTOM_ID" :only-contents t
(See the "Include files" node in the Org manual for more.)
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Kaushal Modi
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-22 9:53 mirror text in same/other org buffer Xebar Saram
2017-11-22 11:40 ` Kaushal Modi [this message]
2017-11-23 6:16 ` Xebar Saram
2017-11-24 6:20 ` Xebar Saram
2017-11-24 6:30 ` Xebar Saram
2017-11-24 16:28 ` Kaushal Modi
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