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
>