Re: [BUG] oddity tangling src_blk with :var [9.7-pre (release_9.6.26-1368-g1ae978 @ /home/minshall/.emacs.d/straight/build/org/)]

[Ihor Radchenko]

Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu> writes:

> a dream might be something like ":var none" to allow the dot source code
> block to indicate it wasn't expecting any ":var" anyway.  but, i guess
> then one would want to allow picking and choosing:
> ----
> : #+header: :var =common_variable
> ----
> or some such to disable *that*?

This can be implemented, but not if the purpose is working around the
tangling issue you are experiencing.

I do not recall many people asking for such a feature.

> maybe, anyway, a warning message *might* be nice -- "failing" (as the
> user may see it) silently can be hard to debug.

It might be. But the real fix should be adding babel API to allow
backends declaring the list of supported features.
Such API is relatively easy to implement.

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