Re: Problem with noweb-ref property

[Tomas Grigera <tgrigera@gmail.com>]

Hi Eric,

Thanks a lot for your quick reply and fix. Getting the git repo
version scares me a bit, but I guess I'll just have to take the
plunge! Here we go :)

Thanks again,

Tomas

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 16:51, Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com> wrote:
> Tomas Grigera <tgrigera@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> This is my first post, so just let me say first that I have been using
>> org-mode for 10 months or so and I love it. It's an exceptional
>> package, and before I ask my question I would just like to thank
>> Carsten, Bastien, and the community for the great work and for
>> sharing.
>>
>> Now my question: I am trying to extract code from a .org file by
>> tangling with noweb-style references. As I understand from the manual,
>> if I write <<foo>> in a code block, the line will be expanded with the
>> code block named foo. This name I can set with #+NAME:  or with the
>> :noweb-ref header argument. Both ways work for me, except that I
>> cannont set the :noweb-ref argument through a property.
>>
>> The following example is almost verbatim from the manual:
>>
>> #+BEGIN_SRC sh :tangle yes :noweb yes :shebang #!/bin/sh
>> <<fullest-disk>>
>> #+END_SRC
>>
>> * the mount point of the fullest disk
>>
>> ** query all mounted disks
>>
>> #+HEADER: :noweb-ref fullest-disk
>> #+BEGIN_SRC sh
>>         df \
>> #+END_SRC
>>
>>
>> ** strip the header row
>>   :PROPERTIES:
>>   :noweb-ref: fullest-disk
>>   :END:
>> #+BEGIN_SRC sh :noweb yes
>>         |sed '1d' \
>> #+END_SRC
>>
>>
>> If I understand correctly, tangling should produce a file which is a
>> concatenation of the two code blocks. However, when I do
>> org-babel-tangle, only the first block   is inserted. Am I doing
>> something wrong?
>>
>> I'm with emacs 23.2.1 and org-mode 7.8.02
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Tomas
>>
>
> Hi Tomas,
>
> You are correct the behavior described above is a bug introduced by a
> fairly recent commit of mine which switched to using regular expressions
> when resolving noweb references in an attempt to decrease the time
> required to tangle code blocks (which can be significant in large code
> blocks).
>
> However correct performance is more important than fast performance.
> I've just pushed up a patch which fixes the bug you've described, and
> hopefully doesn't slow down the tangling process too significantly.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Eric Schulte
> http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/