Just to make sure we don't lose these idea, I've posed them up in the babel dev repo http://eschulte.github.com/babel-dev/PROPOSED-tangle-entire-org-mode-file-in-comments.html
Best -- Eric "Thomas S. Dye" <t...@tsdye.com> writes: > Hi Erik, > > I am *not* a programmer so expect considerable chaff for every kernel > of wheat (no wheat guaranteed). > > I would pass the function an org-mode link then write out the contents > pointed at by the link inside a named code block, with each line > preceded by an optional comment character. If this were written in a > general way, then it would be possible to include comments from any > link--on-line manuals, standards, blogs, etc.--in addition to notes in > the org-mode file. > > If it were written in a very general way, with a transformation > function responsible for adding the comment character, then a variety > of transformations might be possible. > > I've followed the list long enough to recognize that musings like mine > are often met by the response that org-mode already does this. For > all I know, it does! > > All the best, > Tom > > On May 28, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Erik Iverson wrote: > >> >> >> Thomas S. Dye wrote: >>> Hi Erik, >>> If the proposed functionality places comments in the source code in >>> whatever order they appear in the org-mode file, then the result >>> will likely frustrate literate programming efforts that rearrange >>> code blocks on tangling. >> >> Yes, thank you for pointing that out. >> >>> Another way to get pieces of the org-mode file into the source file >>> as comments might be with a little helper function, org-babel-copy- >>> subtree-to-commented-code. The source blocks could be named so the >>> literate programming facilities of org-babel could work with them. >> >> I'm not following this; could you provide a minimal pseudo-example >> of how you see this working in practice? >> >> Thanks! >> Erik _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
