Let me explain what I mean by selective tangling (or any one of the other babel operations)
I mark subtrees [1]. The nearest Org equivalent would be to create a sparse tree with say a tag match and consider the visible portions as selected or marked. Then babel could choose to act on just the visible portion [2] as opposed to the whole buffer (both visible and invisible). It would be the responsibility of the user to make sure that visible portions of the buffer form a coherent whole and babel's results pipeline is not entirely broken. Needless to say, selective 'babeling' is more expressive than 'babeling' based on language or a set of languages or just a subtree. This is because it could capture a user's complete workflow and editing environment. I believe the above request is consistent with org's way of doing things [3]. As for the thread that you reference, I believe the solution is a bit 'nerdy' (if I may use the word) and relies on advanced knowledge (for example, org's tagging apis, programming in elisp and fact that babel plists could indeed be lisp forms) Footnotes: [1] Marking as in emacs sense of the word. Think marking buffers, marking gnus articles etc for later bulk action. [2] That is, org-babel-do would hence forward take an additional visibility-ok arguments. - Visibility need not be just that of a subtree but of any structural element. - Modification of buffer due to insertion of #+results elements and their visibility could slightly complicate the implementation. [3] As of today, I do consider babel's workflow (as a literate programming environment) is orthogonal to Org's world view. Now that babel is a first class entity within org-mode and emacs there is a strong reason why this orthogonality should continue to be exist. Just my few cents here. Jambunathan K. "Eric Schulte" <schulte.e...@gmail.com> writes: > I'm not sure if this exactly fits your needs, but see this recent > related thread. > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/29401/focus=29482 > > Best -- Eric > > Jambunathan K <kjambunat...@gmail.com> writes: > >> If there is support for marking (unmarking) headlines in org file it >> could be quite useful. >> >> For example, selective tangling. >> >> Jambunathan K. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
