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* Help with tangling a table into a source-code representation of the data contained within
@ 2014-02-25  4:37 Grant Rettke
  2014-02-25  4:45 ` Samuel Wales
  2014-02-25  4:49 ` Thomas S. Dye
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Grant Rettke @ 2014-02-25  4:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org

Hi,

My goal is to define a table in org-mode, display it nicely to humans
using export, and tangle that same data table into
an elisp data structure for use elsewhere within the program. It might
look something like this:

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

* Modes

This is a place for humans to keep track both of what
modes activated for what file types; and also what utilies are used
with those modes when they are activated.

#+tblname: modes_data
| mode name | file_type | paredit | auto-save |
|-----------+-----------+---------+-----------|
| scheme | .scm  | yes     | yes       |
| elisp     | .el       | yes     | yes       |
| ielm      | nil       | yes     | no        |

* Test

#+begin_src emacs-lisp :noweb tangle :tangle test.el
  (mapcar (lambda (row) (message (car row))) modes_data)
#+end_src

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

The problem right now is that modes_data is referenced but not defined
anywhere in the tangled file.
How do I include the data itself from modes_data as an elisp data
structure to be defined during the tangling?

What I need help with is:

1. Is the goal I seek realistic?
2. What am I doing wrongly?

An alternative that I figured would work fine is to define modes_data
in a code block with elisp and export
that in the tangling; it would be nicer to use the org table features though.

Regards,

-- 
Grant Rettke | ACM, AMA, COG, IEEE
gcr@wisdomandwonder.com | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/
“Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates
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taking it seriously.” --Thompson

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2014-02-25  4:45 ` Samuel Wales
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2014-02-25  9:00   ` Rainer M Krug
2014-02-26  4:41     ` Grant Rettke
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