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Re: [O] tangle versus org-babel-load-file
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Nick Dokos |
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Re: [O] tangle versus org-babel-load-file |
Date: |
Tue, 03 Apr 2018 12:16:40 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lawrence Bottorff <address@hidden> writes:
> I'm experimenting with Uncle Dave's config which is using a minimum init.el
> to launch config.org, which
> is full of elisp babel source blocks. Here's his relevant launching code:
>
> (when (file-readable-p "~/.emacs.d/config.org")
> (org-babel-load-file (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/config.org")))
>
> However, I've seen this example:
>
> (require 'org)
> (require 'ob-tangle)
> (org-babel-load-file (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/myemacs.org"))
>
> which seems to want (require 'ob-tangle). The Uncle Dave setup is working
> fine. I guess I don't know how
> it's tangling (which means running all the code blocks in the org file,
> right?) without somehow being
> told to. But then what is org-babel-tangle-file doing other than running all
> the code blocks in a file?
> And then there's the :tangle yes parameter on an individual code block. I'm
> missing something here. It
> seems org-babel-load-file is creating a config.el from the config.org --
> which is a tangle behavior.
>
No, tangling does not run code blocks: it just writes them out to (one
or many) different file(s). org-babel-load-file calls
org-babel-tangle which is an autoloaded function, so when it is
called, emacs arranges to load the file that defines it
(i.e. ob-tange.el[c]). So you don't need to to (require 'ob-tangle)
separately. I presume the (require 'org) is also unnecessary because
you are loading the org-mode that is bundled with emacs which does that
automatically (but I haven't used the bundled org-mode in a long time,
so take this cum (the appropriately sized) grano salis).
--
Nick