Indirect buffers are of immense help but I had the same issue.

Can confirm that the hack referring to spec instead to the
buffer-file-name and getting the buffer-base-buffer respectively, does
the trick.

Great!

On 2015-09-04 Fri 17:49, Kyle Meyer wrote:

> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> it seems that tangling from an indirect buffer does not work. Is this by
>> design or a bug?
>
> I don't think that's by design.
>
>> Would it be possible to make this possible?
>
> Does the below patch work for you?  If so, I can test it more thoroughly
> and send a proper patch.

-- 
Fetch my gnupg key:
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 7E3CA33F