Sébastien Miquel <sebastien.miq...@posteo.eu> writes: >> #+name: documentation >> This is a sample function documentation. >> Because there are "quotes", it must be escaped and cannot be directly >> used as noweb-reference. >> >> #+name: doc-escape >> #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var str="" :tangle no >> (prin1-to-string (string-trim-right str)) >> #+end_src >> >> #+begin_src emacs-lisp :tangle yes >> (defun test () >> <<doc-escape(str=documentation)>> >> t) >> #+end_src > I had converted my uses (tangling code, not text/documentation) to > this but I ended up reverting.
Can you provide more concrete examples? > Some drawbacks: > + doesn't work for all languages (does work for LaTeX) Which languages do not work? > + the tangle gets very noisy: not only are the result of execution > printed in the echo buffer, but emacs visits the tangling buffer > and moves the point to each block. > Perhaps this is a bug that can be fixed. Did you try to play with :results header argument to disable messages? What exactly went unexpected? > + src block execution also resets the noweb cache, slowing down > tangle, though I have not tried to measure the effect. I am not sure what you are referring to here. Can you elaborate? Best, Ihor
