I wrote something kind of like this at 
https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax/blob/master/scimax-literate-programming.el 

It might solve a different problem related to navigating code embedded in org files.

I don't think it works on describe-function. That would be an interesting addition perhaps. I guess though that describe-function would go to the elisp code. I never figured out how to get links in the tangled code to jump back to the org file though. 

On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 5:39 PM Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:
I feel like I saw someone do this but can't find it in my notes. When tangling code to elisp, is it possible to point ~describe-function~ to the original org-mode source (or at least the src block) as the "source code" for the function, rather than the resultant .e file produced by org-babel-tangle? Seems like this would make a whole lot of things significantly easier when writing emacs inits, for instnace.  
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