Re: de-tangle function?

[Rainer@krugs.de (Rainer M. Krug)]

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"Sebastien Vauban" <sva-news@mygooglest.com>
writes:

> Hi Rainer,
>
> Rainer M. Krug wrote:
>> I remember something about a de-tangle function, which re-imports the
>> source code blocks into the org file is previously tangled with comments
>> et al, but I can't find that function any more.
>>
>> Is it still there?
>
> M-x org-babel-detangle

How did I miss that????????????

>
>> Does it work reliably?
>
> You need the code blocks to be wrapped into comments for it to work.
>
> Regarding reliability, it does work well on small examples. I remember having
> had really bad results with my huge .emacs file, but hadn't any time to debug
> the problem -- try to reproduce -- at that time.
>
> So, when you do it, please keep a backup of your original Org file. It's
> safer.

Pity - then I can't use it. I have a long org file which tangles in many
.R files and in many cases one file spans across many blocks. I have to
trust it when using it at this stage. But as Eric has improved the
org-babel-tangle-jump-to-org function, I will use that one in debugging.

>
> But, if there are bugs, they should be clearly identified, and fixed...

I agree - but unfortunately at the moment I won't be able to help here.

Cheers,

Rainer

>
> Best regards,
>   Seb

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Rainer M. Krug