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Re: [O] Adding information to tangled code regarding org-source
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Ken Mankoff |
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Re: [O] Adding information to tangled code regarding org-source |
Date: |
Tue, 03 May 2016 21:23:49 -0400 |
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mu4e 0.9.17; emacs 24.5.1 |
How about ":comments link" header arg?
https://org-babel.readthedocs.io/en/latest/header-args/#comments
-k.
On 2016-05-03 at 17:33, Ethan Ligon <address@hidden> wrote:
> When one exports from org to, say, latex the resulting *.tex file
> includes a comment at the top indicating the time of creation. This is
> useful in part because it lets the user know that the *.tex file isn't
> the original source.
>
> The same isn't true of tangled code from a source block, and I've been
> repeatedly bitten by editing a file of python code that was tangled from a
> source org file.
>
> I'd like to deal with this by making tangle emit a comment with
> information about the org-source file. The :prologue header argument is
> well suited to this; e.g.,
>
> #+begin_src python :tangle /tmp/test.py :prologue (format "# Tangled from
> %s on %s" (buffer-file-name) (current-time-string))
> print "Hello, world!"
> #+end_src
>
> produces what one would want.
>
> I'd like to make this header argument be applied automatically. The
> variable org-babel-default-header-args looks like just the ticket, but my
> lame efforts to write the necessary emacs-lisp aren't working:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> (add-to-list 'org-babel-default-header-args:python
> '((:prologue . (format "# Tangled from %s on %s" (buffer-
> file-name) (current-time-string)))))
> #+END_SRC
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> -Ethan