Agree. It should be possible to make the hook file-local, but still it's not trivial to have good control over where and how the changes are made.

--Diego


On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 3:51 PM Immanuel Litzroth <immanuel.litzroth@gmail.com> wrote:
There's that, but you're not gonna do much with that since it is
global to emacs. If you're brimming
with vigour you might achieve what you want by rebinding that each
time you tangle to do the correct
thing. Not much information is available in that hook, you get dropped
into a temp buffer containing the
result of tangling.
Immanuel

On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 3:07 PM Diego Zamboni <diego@zzamboni.org> wrote:
>
> There's =org-babel-post-tangle-hook=, which AFAICT specifies hooks that will be run with the tangled code in a temporary buffer. I couldn't find much documentation nor examples, but it is mentioned at https://orgmode.org/manual/Extracting-Source-Code.html#Hooks-3
>
> --Diego
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>
>
> On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 1:31 PM Immanuel Litzroth <immanuel.litzroth@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't think there is an arg for that. I have written a tangler that
>> reuses a lot
>> of the org-babel machinery and has a more flexible mechanism to decide what
>> to do with the tangled code -- I use it for example to not write a
>> tangled file if it
>> hasn't changed, meaning that it will not trigger recompile.
>> The project is private now but if you're interested I can give you access to it.
>> What exactly are you trying to do?
>> Immanuel
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 1, 2021 at 2:09 AM George Mauer <gmauer@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'd like to run some code to post-process files after they are tangled. Is there a header-arg for that?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> -- Researching the dual problem of finding the function that has a
>> given point as fixpoint.
>>


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-- Researching the dual problem of finding the function that has a
given point as fixpoint.