On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 03:01:44PM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 24/04/12 14:36, Myles English wrote: > >>> On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:22:48 +0200, Rainer M Krug said: > > > >> Hi I have a section which I want to repeat for different variable > >> values. At the moment I am copying them, but I do not like it at > >> all: > > > >> ** Species one :PROPERTIES: :var: SPECIES="sp1" :END: *** Data > >> Checks Here is some text #+header: :results output #+begin_src R > >> checkData(species=SPECIES) #+end_src > > > > > >> ** Species 2 :PROPERTIES: :var: SPECIES="sp2" :END: *** Data Checks > >> Here is some text #+header: :results output #+begin_src R > >> checkData(species=SPECIES) #+end_src > > > > > >> I am sure there must be an easier way with org? > > > > How about using yasnippet? > > Yasnippets would help in filling the file with the repeated code - but > if I want to change e.g. "some text" to "some more text", I still have > to do it manually. Nevertheless, if I could define the org section once > and repeat it with different variable values, this would enable me to > change it only once.
I don't personally know of an org-specific way. But you can do amazing things with `query-replace-regexp' in Emacs, especially the \# and \, escapes which, respectively, let you embed the replacement counter and arbitrary elisp code in the replacement string. (See the docstring or Emacs manual for details.) Whether you consider writing regexps and elisp snippets "easier" is open to debate... Toby -- Dr T. S. Cubitt Mathematics and Quantum Information group Department of Mathematics Complutense University Madrid, Spain email: ts...@cantab.net web: www.dr-qubit.org
