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From: "Cook, Malcolm" <MEC@stowers.org>
Subject: Re: eval source blocks in a subtree when opening file
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 18:47:08 +0000
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To: 'Tamas Papp' <tkpapp@gmail.com>, "Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu>
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> > On Tue, 4 Aug 2015, Tamas Papp wrote:
 > >
 > >> I would like to do the following: whenever I open the file in Emacs,
 > >> I would like to eval all the source blocks under the heading Setup.
 > >>
 > >> I have found org-babel-execute-subtree, but I cannot figure out how
 > >> to call it on the subtree "Setup" from a local eval.
 > >
 > > Name the first block in the subtree "start setup" (say).
 > >
 > > Then
 > >
 > > # Local Variables:
 > > # eval: (org-babel-goto-named-src-block "start setup") # eval:
 > > (org-babel-execute-subtree) # End:
 >=20
 > Thanks! I found that I can also assign an ID to the section, and then us=
e
 >=20
 > # eval: (progn (org-id-goto ...some-id...) (org-babel-execute-subtree))
 >=20
 > It looks like I need the progn for it to work reliably (don't know why).
 >=20
 > I am wondering if it would be possible to break a line in Local Variable=
s, but
 >=20
 > # eval: (progn (org-id-goto ...some-id...) \
 > #              (org-babel-execute-subtree))
 >=20
 > didn't work.
 >=20
[Cook, Malcolm]=20

Ditch the line continuation character.  This works in my hands with emacs 2=
4.4.1 to set foo to bar:

# Local Variables:
# eval: (setq foo
#   "bar")
# End:



 > Best,
 >=20
 > Tamas