Re: [babel] `org-babel-tangle-w-comments' controls comment insertion in tangled code

[Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu>]

Thomas S. Dye wrote:
> Hi Erik,
> 
> If the proposed functionality places comments in the source code in 
> whatever order they appear in the org-mode file, then the result will 
> likely frustrate literate programming efforts that rearrange code blocks 
> on tangling.

Yes, thank you for pointing that out.

> 
> Another way to get pieces of the org-mode file into the source file as 
> comments might be with a little helper function, 
> org-babel-copy-subtree-to-commented-code.  The source blocks could be 
> named so the literate programming facilities of org-babel could work 
> with them.

I'm not following this; could you provide a minimal pseudo-example of 
how you see this working in practice?

Thanks!
Erik