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From: Charles Berry <ccberry@ucsd.edu>
Subject: Re: Proposal to replace the prefix repetition with whitespace during
 expansion of noweb references
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 15:30:40 +0000 (UTC)
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Pontus Michael <m.pontus <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> I would like to propose a change to the behavior of noweb expansion in 
> relation to prefix handling. 
[snip]


> I recommend to introduce a change that will replace the inserted prefix
> with whitespace of equal length.

[snip]


The behavior you desire can be obtained by using the 

     <<code-block-name(optional arguments)>>

idiom for noweb. For example, with a suitably crafted block called 
'my-noweb', this reference

    <<my-noweb( "(concat", "foo", ")" )>>

would expand just as you want. You can use the functions
org-babel-goto-named-src-block  and org-babel-get-src-block-info to achieve
this.

Multiple noweb references might be handled as well by delimiting the second
argument, e.g. "foo,bar".

---

Revising the behavior of the existing code base might break code
that folks have written that depend on the current behavior.

HTH,

Chuck