Dear Mr Kitchin,
you are a genius !!!!!!
A BIG THANK YOU!!!
Wow. I couldn't imagine someone might be able to do this so quickly
and perfectly. Wow.
thank you so much
HJ
PS: Now I'm off to figure out how to invoke emacs to tell it to open up
the window and show this file at the place where this-block block
appears ...
On 1/18/21 1:12 AM, John Kitchin wrote:
> I guess this is what you mean:
>
>
> * heading L1_12
> ** heading L2_37
>
> #+name: this-block
> #+header: :var VAR1=(getenv "HOSTNAME")
> #+header: :var VAR2=(message user-login-name)
> #+header: :var VAR3=(buffer-file-name)
> #+header: :var VAR4=(org-element-property :name (org-element-context))
> #+header: :var VAR5=(org-no-properties (org-display-outline-path nil t))
> #+header: :var VAR5a=(line-number-at-pos (org-element-property :begin
> (org-element-context)))
> #+header: :var VAR6=(s-trim (shell-command-to-string "git rev-parse
> HEAD"))
> #+header: :var VAR7=(s-trim (shell-command-to-string "git branch
> --show-current"))
> #+BEGIN_SRC sh :results raw
> echo Run by $VAR2 from $VAR3
> echo In a src-block named $VAR4 in $VAR5 at line $VAR5a
> echo on commit $VAR6 in git branch $VAR7
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+RESULTS: this-block
> Run by jkitchin from
> /Users/jkitchin/Dropbox/emacs/journal/2021/01/17/2021-01-17.org
> <http://2021-01-17.org>
> In a src-block named this-block in heading L1_12/heading L2_37 at line 140
> on commit a07475addc3fdf557fb46a72b1100cf1c9c0805a in git branch master
>
>
>
> John
>
> -----------------------------------
> Professor John Kitchin
> Doherty Hall A207F
> Department of Chemical Engineering
> Carnegie Mellon University
> Pittsburgh, PA 15213
> 412-268-7803
> @johnkitchin
> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu <http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 4:42 PM HJ <hj-orgmode-1@hj.proberto.com
> <mailto:hj-orgmode-1@hj.proberto.com>> wrote:
>
>
> hi,
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to write a block , header,
> PROPERTY or
> whatever is necessary so the output of a command in babel source
> block
> identifies it own position - the line (or block or something) in
> buffer
> (or at least the file) in which it is written. ( Plus the checked out
> git revision / branch. )
>
>
> I've been experimenting with the following, so far without much
> luck ...
>
> Which of these pieces of information (see the "echo" line below)
> is it
> possible to get? Which is easy? (variables VAR[0345] are most
> critical)
> How would one write a snippet which provides (some of) this
> information?
>
> Is it much harder with command 1 being SSH to a remote machine?
> Would
> ":dir user@remotemachine:/some/dir" work better? Or at all?
>
> Perhaps I would know how to find out VAR6 and VAR7 by running first
> some `git cmd1` and `git cmd2` locally in a " command 0 " - but is
> there
> a way to get that info from magit somehow?
>
> But what I am most desperate for is how to cause orgmode block
> to set
> VAR0, VAR3, VAR4 and VAR5, and - also fairly important - how to
> use the
> combination of VAR[0345] do open / recall the file onto the screen
>
> Thanks a million for helping me out here ...
>
> HJ
>
>
> This is the sample file :
>
>
> * heading L1_12
> Hello and welcome, this is a file with self-referencing shell
> babel source code blocks
> ...
> ** heading L2_37
> ...
> #+NAME: block220
> #+BEGIN_SRC bash :session sess9
> : command 0 ; cd
> _how-do-I-find-the-dir-of-currently-edited-file_ ; VAR6=`git cmd1`
> ; VAR7=`git cmd2`
> : command 1 ; ssh -o "SetEnv VAR1=machine VAR2=user VAR3=..."
> targetUser@targetMachine
> #+END_SRC
>
>
> ...
>
> #+NAME: block225
> #+BEGIN_SRC bash :session sess9
> : command 2 ; : do some computation on targetMachine
> : command 3 ; echo This code has been launched from emacs
> process VAR0:_EMACS_SESSION_ID_ \
> on computer $VAR1:_SRC_HOSTNAME_ \
> run by user $VAR2:_USER_ \
> from file $VAR3:_FILENAME_ \
> code block named $VAR4:block225 \
> in this file positioned under headings: $VAR5:heading
> L1_12/heading L2_37/ \
> which is checked out from $VAR6:_GIT_COMMIT_ID_ \
> on branch $VAR7:_GIT_BRANCH_
> : command 3 continues ; echo To display the buffer which
> launched this code on the screen of the running emacs session, run
> the following command : emacs _What_the_heck_do_I_put_here?_ '&'
> #+END_SRC
>
>
>
>
>
>
>