On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:21 PM David Rogoff wrote: > Thanks - I’ll have to look into noweb. I’m not familiar with it. > This turned out to be much complicated than I expected.. I still don't have a fully working solution (see below). Hopefully someone can help figure out the reason for "Invalid read syntax: #" error. Below example Org file will work right away. But it will fail with the above error the moment second line (for more macros) is added to org-macros block. ===== 1. Eval the =org-macros= block once (=C-c C-c=) - Always use that =org-macros= block to define the Org macros for this file. - Hitting =C-c C-c= will insert those macros in this file. - This block is reused as a noweb-ref in other blocks.. so keeping just this block as a source for all Org macros will be convenient. 2. Export this file (=C-c C-e h o=) #+BEGIN_SRC org :noweb-ref org-macros :results output replace :exports none ,#+MACRO: SEC_FOO Foo Topic #+END_SRC #+NAME: ehdr #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var macro="n" :noweb yes :results raw :exports none (with-temp-buffer (insert "<>\n") (let ((start (point))) (insert "// ---------------------------\n") (insert (concat "// {{{" macro "}}}")) (org-mode) (org-macro-replace-all (append org-macro-templates org-export-global-macros)) (buffer-substring-no-properties start (point-max)))) #+END_SRC ** TODO Fix Invalid read syntax: "#" This solution /almost/ works. If the content of the =org-macros= block is changed from: #+BEGIN_SRC org ,#+MACRO: SEC_FOO Foo Topic #+END_SRC To: #+BEGIN_SRC org ,#+MACRO: SEC_FOO Foo Topic ,#+MACRO: SEC_BAR Bar Topic #+END_SRC We get this error: #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE Invalid read syntax: "#" #+END_EXAMPLE Looks like that happens due to ~(insert "<>\n")~ when the ~org-macros~ ~noweb-ref~ has multiple lines. But I cannot figure out why having multiple lines is a problem. ** Section 1: {{{SEC_FOO}}} #+BEGIN_SRC verilog :noweb yes <> parameter A = 1; #+END_SRC ** COMMENT Section 2: {{{SEC_BAR}}} #+BEGIN_SRC verilog :noweb yes <> parameter A = 1; #+END_SRC ===== -- Kaushal Modi