On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Ian Barton <lists@wilkesley.net> wrote:

> I am using org to keep configuration files for my various servers. A
> typical file might look like:
>
> * Postfix
> ** main.cf
> #+BEGIN_SRC sh :tangle ~/dropbox/configuration_files/**
> wilkesley.org/postfix/main.cf <http://wilkesley.org/postfix/main.cf>:exports none :noweb yes
>
> #+END_SRC
> ** master.cf
>
> * Dovecot
> ** dovecot.conf
>
> Mostly I only change one configuration file and don't need to tangle every
> block in my org file. Is there any method to only tangle files under a
> particular heading? Thus I could regenerate just my Postfix config files
> and not my Dovecot ones.
>

Check org-narrow-to-subtree - you can narrow to subtree and then tangle.

Cheers,

Rainer


>
> Ian.
>
>


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