Re: Import files to babel blocks

[Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com>]

Hi Michael,

Michael Bach writes:

> Dear org-mode Users and Developers,
>
> I am trying to write a simple function for importing files to org-mode
> babel code blocks.
>
> My naive approach was
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (defun import-to-org-from-files (path pattern progmode)
>   (mapcar #'(lambda (filepath)
>               (progn
>                 (insert (format
>                          "\n#+name: %s\n" (file-name-nondirectory
>                                            (file-name-sans-extension
>                                             filepath))))
>                 (insert (format "#+begin_src: %s :eval no\n" progmode))
>                 (insert-file-contents filepath)

From the documentation (C-h f insert-file-contents), it says that it
"returns list of absolute file name and number of characters" but
doesn't move the marker forwards, unlike insert does.  So, I guess you
would have to then move the marker forwards by the number of characters.

>                 (insert "\n#+end_src\n"))
>               )
>           (directory-files path t pattern)))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Myles