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From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Feature request for ox.el: add input-buffer attribute to INFO
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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 14:39:35 +0100
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Hello,

Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> writes:

> in ox.el I find
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (defun org-export--get-buffer-attributes ()
>   "Return properties related to buffer attributes, as a plist."
>   ;; Store full path of input file name, or nil.  For internal use.
>   (list :input-file (buffer-file-name (buffer-base-buffer))))
> #+end_src
>
> and consequently :input-file is nil if I export a buffer without an
> associated file (what I do quite often for some reason). 
>
> Wouldn't it make sense to call this attribute :input-buffer-or-file or
> so and store 'full path of input file name' if there is an associated
> file, and the buffer name otherwise (instead of just nil)?
>
> Obviously, this extra information did not seem useful for the default
> use case of the Org exporter so it wasn't included in the communication
> channel. However, for other use cases it might be necessary to e.g. tag
> headlines with a unique ID of the original parse-tree they belonged to,
> and using the input-file (or input-buffer) name when creating this unique
> ID seems only logical.

I added :input-buffer to the communication channel.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou