From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: Fabrice Niessen <fni-news@pirilampo.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tangle with conditional statement
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 09:49:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eh9jay2u.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <867gfbjic3.fsf@somewhere.org> (Fabrice Niessen's message of "Sat, 24 Aug 2013 16:04:28 +0200")
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"Fabrice Niessen" <fni-news@pirilampo.org> writes:
> Hello Andreas,
>
>> First time poster to this mailing list.
>> I was hoping i could get some pointers to a question I have not yet found a
>> solution or example of.
>>
>> I use orgmode and tangled elisp src blocks to initiate emacs. I also use
>> el-get to install packages, however sometimes these packages fail for
>> various reasons and I would like to skip them so that the hall emacs
>> initailisation doesn't brake. However for important packages i have them
>> hardcoded in my init files so that the settings I have doesn't complain.
>> But as I use org-mode to tangle this I can just flip the :tangle to "no" to
>> to not tangle a specific section.
>>
>> my question: Is it possible to have a conditional statement for a tangled
>> block so that only if a package is installed or a directory exist does the
>> block tangle? Meaning that I wouldn't need to hard code all the el-get
>> fetches in my init file.
Yes, this is possible, e.g.,
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* Conditional Tangle Example
To setup, run this block to ensure foo exists and bar doesn't.
#+begin_src sh :tangle no :results silent
date > foo
rm -f bar
#+end_src
Then tangle the buffer with =C-c C-v t=.
#+begin_src emacs-lisp :tangle (if (file-exists-p "foo") "yes" "no")
(message "only tangled if %s exists %s" "foo" (file-exists-p "foo"))
#+end_src
#+begin_src emacs-lisp :tangle (if (file-exists-p "bar") "yes" "no")
(message "only tangled if %s exists %s" "bar" (file-exists-p "bar"))
#+end_src
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>>
>> Is this a good idea?
Probably not. The emacs-lisp embedded in your Org-mode file is only
re-tangled when the Org-mode file changes, so it is better to have the
conditional in the tangled Emacs Lisp file so it is run every time you
start Emacs.
>> or should I work in conditions in the emacs src blocks instead? I
>> realize now when I'm typing it out that it might come with some other
>> issues like first time running it I would have to reinitialize emacs
>> after package installs to get my settings but after that I guess it
>> would be fine.
>
> Instead of trying to put the "look if package is present" constraint on
> Babel's side (and have a configuration file which you cannot exchange), I'd do
> it on the Emacs (Lisp) side, as I did in my configuration file [1] with a
> "try-require" function:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (defvar leuven--missing-packages nil
> "List of packages that `try-require' or `locate-library' can't find.")
>
> ;; require a feature/library if available; if not, fail silently
> (defun try-require (feature)
> "Attempt to load a library or module. Return true if the
> library given as argument is successfully loaded. If not, instead
> of an error, just add the package to a list of missing packages."
> (let (time-start)
> (condition-case err
> ;; protected form
> (progn
> (when leuven-load-verbose
> (message "(info) Checking for `%s'..." feature))
> (if (stringp feature)
> (load-library feature)
> (setq time-start (float-time))
> (require feature))
> t)
> ;; error handler
> (file-error ;; condition
> (progn
> (when leuven-load-verbose
> (message "(info) Checking for `%s'... missing" feature))
> (add-to-list 'leuven--missing-packages feature 'append))
> nil))))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Best regards,
> Fabrice
>
> [1] https://github.com/fniessen/emacs-leuven/blob/master/emacs-leuven.el
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2013-08-24 11:51 Tangle with conditional statement Andreas
2013-08-24 14:04 ` Fabrice Niessen
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2013-10-06 19:50 Andreas
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