On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 8:19 PM Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> There are two different concepts - tangling and exporting. When you
> tangle the file, code blocks are written out into code files (possibly
> with evaluation etc). This is part of the 'literate programming' support
> within org.
>

Yep - thanks - it's just easy to conflate the two :-)


> When you export a file, you are exporting the file
> contents into a different format i.e PDF, HTML, markdown etc. By
> default, code blocks are not evaluated during this process - they are
> just exported 'as-is'. However, sometimes, these code blocks are used to
> generate content in the file, so you do want them to be evaluated during
> the export (for example, to create a 'results' section, generate an
> image that is embedded in the file etc).
>
> So, if you 'export' your emacs init org file as PDF, it will be exported
> as a PDF file where the source blocks will appear as source listings in
> the PDF file along with all the other non source block text. If on the
> other hand, you tangle your emacs init org file, it will create an .el
> file with only the source blocks.
>
> Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Thanks Tim - I wanted to ask the list -- what does "
> >
> > By default, Org does not tangle the ‘src’ code block on export." mean in
> > this web page:https://orgmode.org/manual/Extracting-source-code.html
> > I mean, I have all of my begin_src emacs-lisp blocks with no explicit
> > :tangle yesand they all are exported to the resulting *.el file.  What
> does
> > the above statement mean?
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 6:14 PM Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I just put :tangle no in the block header e.g.
> >>
> >> #+begin_src emacs-lisp :tangle no
> >>
> >> #+end_src
> >>
> >> This is how I turn off or remove blocks from my .emacs.d/init.el file,
> >> which is tangled from an or file. You can also put a filename. This is
> >> what I do for Emacs 27, which introduces the early-init.el file i.e.
> >>
> >> #+begin_src emacs-lisp :tangle early-init.el
> >>
> >> #+end_src
> >>
> >> #+begin_src emacs-lisp :tangle init.el
> >>
> >> #+end_src
> >>
> >> Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > Hello all,
> >> >
> >> > I use *.org files to configure my emacs and use org-babel-load-file
> >> > to configure my org-mode using *.org files.  Love the feature.
> >> >
> >> > However sometimes I'm experimenting with code blocks, and want to
> simply
> >> > "turn off" certain code blocks in my *.org files from being executed.
> >> > Every time
> >> > I go to do this, I search the web for 30-60 minutes and I'm frustrated
> >> and
> >> > confused by
> >> > the myriad options and documentation.
> >> >
> >> > All I want to do is mark a source code block in my *.org files so that
> >> the
> >> > particular code block is:
> >> >
> >> > 1) Not exported to the resulting .el file when tangling
> >> > Or
> >> > 2) Not ran in the resulting .el files when tangling
> >> >
> >> > I recently spent 30 minutes to an hour trying to figure out how to
> simply
> >> > "disable" or "prevent" or "exclude" or "quit" or "don't" or "stop" or
> >> > "please don't do this"
> >> > to a code block in my *.org files.  I don't want to mark the code
> block
> >> as
> >> > "text", unless there's really no other option.
> >> >
> >> > In my opinion, the documentation does not simply define how to do this
> >> > relatively common task.
> >> >
> >> > Can someone please point me in the right direction?  Also I would be
> >> > willing to submit a doc-fix or FAQ item if there is currently not an
> item
> >> > to do so.  I'm lost and do not want to spend more time on this
> seemingly
> >> > easy task.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > --Nate
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Tim Cross
> >>
> >>
>
>
> --
> Tim Cross
>