From: Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com>
To: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-org list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: mirror text in same/other org buffer
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 08:16:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOQHXPrUJLuWr+SFG7Xx9x896gFqj+vDj9R6T7aNifj0s87UZA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFyQvY1OcG7VCu4as6xZUnWY7u7zUjAVDqsjO=UfG3pugaxBsg@mail.gmail.com>
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thx!
that works well for me :D
best and happy holidays :)
Z
On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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.)
>
> --
>
> 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
2017-11-23 6:16 ` Xebar Saram [this message]
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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