* Tangle with conditional statement
@ 2013-08-24 11:51 Andreas
2013-08-24 14:04 ` Fabrice Niessen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Andreas @ 2013-08-24 11:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
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Hello mailing list,
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.
Is this a good idea? 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.
Hope to get some pointers,
Regards,
Andreas
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* Re: Tangle with conditional statement
2013-08-24 11:51 Tangle with conditional statement Andreas
@ 2013-08-24 14:04 ` Fabrice Niessen
2013-08-24 15:49 ` Eric Schulte
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Fabrice Niessen @ 2013-08-24 14:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ
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.
> Is this a good idea? 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
--
Fabrice Niessen
Leuven, Belgium
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* Re: Tangle with conditional statement
2013-08-24 14:04 ` Fabrice Niessen
@ 2013-08-24 15:49 ` Eric Schulte
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Eric Schulte @ 2013-08-24 15:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fabrice Niessen; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
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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
--
Eric Schulte
https://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte
PGP: 0x614CA05D
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* Re: Tangle with conditional statement
@ 2013-10-06 19:50 Andreas
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From: Andreas @ 2013-10-06 19:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
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Hi Fabrice and Eric,
A long over due response. Apologies.
I got a unanimous answer about not putting the conditional statements in
the code block header, that was reassuring =). I guess the use case here is
if you have different configurations for different users or machines or
something similar.
I looked at the code I was shown. I noticed there was some pieces missing
but even though adding them I could not get the code to work properly. I
figured it was due to me using el-get for my packages and no packages are
actually required, but somehow autoloaded instead, by the el-get setup, or
it's just a matter of me being a noob elisper.
Anyway, when I was fiddling around with the code I stumbled upon el-gets
built in functions. I noticed that, of course, el-get has functions for
checking install status of packages. My current solution therefore looks
like this:
(if (el-get-package-exists-p "<package>")
(do stuff) )
which seems to work well for now but is not optimal. Of course it's only
works with el-get installed packages but I'll have to live with it for now.
Thanks Fabrice and Eric for your swift responses.
Regards
Andreas
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