Re: Tangling flow control

["Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu>]

On Wed, 9 Nov 2016, Philip Hudson wrote:

> On 9 November 2016 at 21:41, Charles C. Berry <ccberry@ucsd.edu> wrote:
>> The org src block is just a container. Its body is a src block template that
>> gets copied into the variable `tmpl', which if filled and placed in file can
>> be tangled.
>
> That makes sense, but it seems to conflict with what you illustrate:
>
> #+RESULTS:
> #+BEGIN_src org
> ,#+BEGIN_SRC shell :tangle abc.sh
> ls -lt my-dir
> ,#+END_SRC
> #+END_src
>
> I'd expect/want:
>
> #+RESULTS:
> #+BEGIN_SRC shell :tangle abc.sh
> ls -lt my-dir
> #+END_SRC
>
> Wouldn't I?


For sure. But when developing stuff like this `:wrap src org' will capture 
it and protect against messing up the rest of your *.org file.

Once you get it filling the template as you want it, remove the :wrap 
header and add a `:file script.org' header

But it is indeed optional.

Chuck