Re: Does org export have something like Lisp quasiquote and unquote?

[Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>]

Oleh <ohwoeowho@gmail.com> writes:

>> The following will do what you want.
>>
>> set the value
>> #+begin_src lisp :results silent
>> (defvar foo '(defun square (x)  (* x x)))
>> #+end_src
>>
>> #+begin_src lisp :results output pp code
>> foo
>> #+end_src
>>
>> #+RESULTS:
>> #+BEGIN_SRC lisp
>>
>> (DEFUN SQUARE (X) (* X X))
>> #+END_SRC
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> --
>> Eric Schulte
>> https://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte
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>
> Thanks, Eric,
>
> but this isn't what I had in mind.  I want the org-mode file to remain
> unchanged while behaving as if it was changed, something like C
> macros: C compiler is not aware of macros and I'm not aware of the
> expanded code, but we get along nicely anyway.
>

Think of code blocks as macros with optional interactive expansion.  If
you don't execute the code block you need not ever see the results,
however with an additional ":exports results" header argument the code
block will be executed and replaced with it's results on export.

Take a look at the (info "(org) Working With Source Code") portion of
the Org-mode manual.

Hope this helps,

>
> First use-case is that I'm writing documentation for a library of
> functions, so some of them are mentioned a few times. I'd like to
> refer to them not by name, which can be subjected to change but by a
> file local variable.  For instance, I've got a link in a table
> referring to a heading. They both have the same name and I'd like to
> keep them consistent, but I don't want to do it manually.
>
> Second use-case is that I'm generating a HTML block with
> `htmlize-buffer' that I want to include in the document. I'd prefer
> not to have hundreds of lines of HTML that correspond to 3 lines of
> code that they're supposed to represent. I'd rather generate this HTML
> via this macro mechanism that I hope exists in some form, maybe in
> conjunction with a makefile-like mechanism.
>
> Here's the org file that I'm working on:
> https://raw.github.com/abo-abo/lispy/gh-pages/index.org.
> As you see a lot of redundancy there and also several huge ugly HTML blocks.
> Btw, is there a way to #include HTML blocks?
> Here's the export result: http://abo-abo.github.io/lispy/.
>
> regards,
> Oleh

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