Re: org-babel-tangle-w-comments has no effect in R?

[Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com>]

Hi Eric

On Friday, July 2, 2010, Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Rainer,
>
> Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>>>
>>> I think that moving forward it might make sense to remove the
>>> org-babel-tangle-w-comments variable, as it's confusing to have two
>>> points of control for comments during tangling.  Also, it looks like I
>>> need to add the :comments header argument to the babel documentation.
>>>
>>
>> Both points agreed.
>>
>
> Great, I'll put together a patch removing this variable.

Great.

>
>>
>> In addition: is it possible to customize the format for all comments
>> (on a per file basis and / or a per block basis)? i.e. I don't need
>> the file name, as all blocks are coming from one file. I know about
>>
>>   #+srcname: <name>
>>
>> but is there a variable for the line number (I guess that is covered by the
>> request posted in another thread) one could use?
>>
>
> We could very easily introduce a customizable
> `org-babel-tangle-comment-format-string', in fact I think this would be
> a very good idea.

Yes -  that would make the comment feature much more useful.

>
>>
>> Also, would it be possible to include a link in the comment block, so
>> that clicking on that link actually opens the org-file file at the
>> location of the source block? That would make editing the code really
>> easy.
>>
>
> That was the goal of the current comment syntax, unfortunately I don't
> know of a good way to activate Org-mode style links in the comments of
> source code files.  Rest assured once that feature exists (and I know
> about it) we'll have such links.

Sound great. That would actually make it perfect.

Cheers,

Rainer

>
> Best -- Eric
>

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