Re: Moving to a literate file for .emacs

[Immanuel Litzroth]

It's possible to let tangling generate comments that will link back to the
literate file where you defined the function.
https://orgmode.org/manual/Extracting-Source-Code.html
See the comment header arg.

Then you could advise the relevant functions that do emacs function lookup
to check whether there's such a "link comment" near the definition and jump
to that instead.

All this is rather hackish and I stopped doing my init files in literate org.
Immanuel

On Mon, Jul 4, 2022 at 4:07 PM Stephen Eglen <sje30@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> I see many users are switching to using a 'literate programming'
> approach to tangling their .emacs file from an org file.
>
> Has anyone solved the following problem though?  If I have a file called
> config.org containing:
>
> * test
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (defun quick-test ()
>     "interactive"
>     (* 3 9)
>   )
> #+end_src
>
>
> and then in my .emacs file I do:
>
> (org-babel-load-file "~/config.org")
>
> quick-test is indeed defined, but when I do C-c f RET quick-test RET it
> takes me to config.el (a tangled file, suitable for computers, not
> humans), rather than config.org.  Is it possible instead to get the
> editor to jump to the definition in config.org?
>
> Stephen
>
>


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