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Subject: Re: [BABEL] Tangling to a hierarchy of files?
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To: Christopher Witte <chris@witte.net.au>
Cc: "Charles C. Berry" <cberry@tajo.ucsd.edu>, Chris Maier <christopher.maier@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com>

Christopher Witte <chris@witte.net.au> writes:

>  On 19 January 2011 18:41, Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The reason that I push back against this, is that I often times
>> accidentally use a tangle path in which the directory does not exist and
>> the error notification serves as a useful warning that I either
>> mis-typed the directory or need to create it.
>>
>
> Why not make the function prompt the user if they want to create the
> directory? That way you get the best of both worlds.
>

This would be a departure from all existing header arguments none of
which will require a prompt.  In fact the only time that evaluating a
code block can lead to a prompt is through the confirmation construct
which is allowed to be special because it is a security concern.

That said if you do want more complex behavior like prompting you should
be able to add this sort of thing to the `org-babel-pre-tangle-hook'.

Best -- Eric

>
>
> Chris.