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Subject: Re: org-babel-detangle issue on 9.1.14
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 10:19:00 -0500
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On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 2:09 AM Brad Knotwell <bknotwell@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've been playing with org-babel-detangle and I've noticed something that's either a bug or a limitation.  It's confusing enough that
> it's worth writing down if it's expected.  Basically, it doesn't work if there are variables defined in the begin_src header.  I've
> attached an example below.  The first one won't detangle and the last two will.

That is expected behavior. Org can only detangle the content of source
blocks. It can't deduce how that
source code got in there.

Maybe this example says it better:

#+begin_src sh sh :tangle hw.sh :var x=(random) :shebang #!/bin/sh
:comments link
echo $x
#+end_src

Tangles to

#!/bin/sh
# [[file:~/tmp/test.org::org_gcr_2018-10-04T08-35-43-05-00_cosmicality_CCEACAA2-A6B3-4FDD-9259-7F633316F0CE][org_gcr_2018-10-04T08-35-43-05-00_cosmicality_CCEACAA2-A6B3-4FDD-9259-7F633316F0CE]]
x='422131055910453451'
echo $x
# org_gcr_2018-10-04T08-35-43-05-00_cosmicality_CCEACAA2-A6B3-4FDD-9259-7F633316F0CE
ends here