Re: [PATCH] Allow tangling to a list of files

[Jacopo De Simoi <wilderjds@protonmail.com>]

Hi Doctor,

 It's good to have such constructive discussion here.

I like your approach to tangle based on tags.  I accomplish more or less the same in this (unfinished) literate config for zshrc

https://gist.github.com/85c9b9c9ab151c5fd35bd761ef6ef569

Here the function `org-tags-to-filenames' simply fetches the list of tags and returns a list of filenames corresponding to the tags.  Each block is then tangled to each file in the returned list (using the patch under discussion)

Best
 J
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On Thursday, July 8th, 2021 at 12:41 PM, Trust me I am a Doctor <pillule@riseup.net> wrote:

> Hi,
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> I have no particular opinion for the patch proposed but wanted to share
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> with you some reflections I had on the subject to use one org file to
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> tangle to multiple setup.
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> I use abundantly virtual machines and my emacs configurations have many
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> bits that I don't want everywhere, be it a mail setup, a rss setup, or
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> extra languages setup ... etc.
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> It is not exactly the same usage, I do not tangle different versions in
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> one pass, I tangle a version at a time, and take care of installing it
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> in the right place later.
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> Naively I started to use the header's tags to tangle blocks. I thought
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> because there was already in place a query syntax for the tags it
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> may been interesting to use that.
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> You can see attached a proto of a tangle function that accept tags
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> specification and that will only tangle the blocks of the headings
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> matching this specification; and some utilities that I use with it.
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> However I must say that solution is quite simplistic. It effectively
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> allow me to filter dynamically what I tangle from my files, but I cannot
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> rely on it to specify elegantly, eg, complex dependencies between
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> packages.
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> At some point I wished to use org-properties to abstract some logics
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> from Elisp to org, and then forget about I always have something else to
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> tweak ...
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