re-export using same options

re-export using same options

[Daniel Clemente]

  Hi, after exporting a subtree to HTML, I do some change and want to export again. I find that I have to do a long process to get there:
C-space    C-c C-u   C-c C-e C-s h H    C-u space

  This works, but for every little change I do I have to select again which subtree and which format I want.

  Can I re-export using the last settings? If there's a function for that that can be invoked with M-x, then only  M-x up RET   will be needed for successive reexports.


  Thanks

Re: re-export using same options

[Charles Berry]

Daniel Clemente <n142857 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> 
>   Hi, after exporting a subtree to HTML, I do some change and want to
export again. I find that I have to do a long
> process to get there:
> C-space    C-c C-u   C-c C-e C-s h H    C-u space
> 
[snip]
> 
>   Can I re-export using the last settings? 

[snip]

C-u C-c C-e

See the manual

   (org) The export dispatcher

Re: re-export using same options

[Daniel Clemente]

> > 
> >   Can I re-export using the last settings? 
> 
> C-u C-c C-e

  Thanks, that makes it faster, but you need to be in the same subtree. Is there something that also remembers which subtree was exported?

Re: re-export using same options

[Charles Berry]

Daniel Clemente <n142857 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> > > 
> > >   Can I re-export using the last settings? 
> > 
> > C-u C-c C-e
> 
>   Thanks, that makes it faster, but you need to be in the same subtree. 

Not so.

Recent versions of org-mode use this variable to find the subtree:

org-export-dispatch-last-position is a variable defined in `ox.el'.
Its value is #<marker at 219 in *scratch*>

Documentation:
The position where the last export command was created using the dispatcher.
This marker will be used with `C-u C-c C-e' to make sure export repetition
uses the same subtree if the previous command was restricted to a subtree.

and it appears to update during edits so that same the subtree is found
in subsequent exports. This

     If the current buffer hasn't changed and subtree export 
     was activated, the command will affect that same subtree.

seems to say that buffer edits will break C-u C-c C-e, but 
that did not happen in the examples I tried.

> Is there something that also remembers which subtree was exported?
> 


If you still think there is a problem, you should produce an ECM[1] to
demonstrate it.


[1] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#ecm

Re: re-export using same options

[Daniel Clemente]

> > > >   Can I re-export using the last settings? 
> > > 
> > > C-u C-c C-e
> > 
> >   Thanks, that makes it faster, but you need to be in the same subtree. 
> 
> Not so.
> 

  With org-mode from some days ago it was failing: only moving to a new subtree would make C-u C-c C-e export the new subtree (using the old format).
  But I tried again today with latest org-mode and it doesn't happen; now the old tree is remembered correctly.
  Thanks for pointing it out.


> and it appears to update during edits so that same the subtree is found
> in subsequent exports. This
> 
>      If the current buffer hasn't changed and subtree export 
>      was activated, the command will affect that same subtree.
> 
> seems to say that buffer edits will break C-u C-c C-e, but 
> that did not happen in the examples I tried.

  This happened to me (the marker pointed to a different subtree) but only if my edits were before the marker, not after. But since most people want to edit things below the heading they export, this shouldn't be a common problem.