Re: Using Org-mode for literate Emacs configuration with use-package

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Sébastien Gendre <seb@k-7.ch> writes:

> Sometimes, I need to split a package configuration into multiple
> sections of my Org-mode document. For example Org-mode, because I set a
> lot of settings. By spiting my config, I can correctly document each
> option and organize it in a more comprehensible way.
>
> But with the elisp function `(use-package)`, I need to join each package
> configuration into the call of `(use-package)` function. Which prevent
> me from splitting my config into Org-mode sections.
>
> I was thinking of writing Org-mode source block with different parts of
> my `(use-package)` call, so I can distribute it into different section of my
> Org-mode document. But in this case, I can no-longer evaluate my
> `(use-package)` call directly from my Org-mode document.
>
> Do you have any suggestion ? How do you manage this problem ?

You can make use of noweb expansion:

* Org config

#+begin_src emacs-lisp :tangle yes :noweb yes
  (use-package org
    :config
    <<org-settings>>
    )
#+end_src

** Actual config
:PROPERTIES:
:header-args: :noweb-ref org-settings :tangle no
:END:
*** Agenda files
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(setq org-agenda-files '("/path/to/agenda/files"))
#+end_src
*** Startup
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
  (setq org-startup-indented t)
#+end_src


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