Thanks Tim - I wanted to ask the list -- what does "

By default, Org does not tangle the ‘src’ code block on export." mean in
this web page:https://orgmode.org/manual/Extracting-source-code.html
I mean, I have all of my begin_src emacs-lisp blocks with no explicit
:tangle yesand they all are exported to the resulting *.el file.  What does
the above statement mean?

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 6:14 PM Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I just put :tangle no in the block header e.g.
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp :tangle no
>
> #+end_src
>
> This is how I turn off or remove blocks from my .emacs.d/init.el file,
> which is tangled from an or file. You can also put a filename. This is
> what I do for Emacs 27, which introduces the early-init.el file i.e.
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp :tangle early-init.el
>
> #+end_src
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp :tangle init.el
>
> #+end_src
>
> Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I use *.org files to configure my emacs and use org-babel-load-file
> > to configure my org-mode using *.org files.  Love the feature.
> >
> > However sometimes I'm experimenting with code blocks, and want to simply
> > "turn off" certain code blocks in my *.org files from being executed.
> > Every time
> > I go to do this, I search the web for 30-60 minutes and I'm frustrated
> and
> > confused by
> > the myriad options and documentation.
> >
> > All I want to do is mark a source code block in my *.org files so that
> the
> > particular code block is:
> >
> > 1) Not exported to the resulting .el file when tangling
> > Or
> > 2) Not ran in the resulting .el files when tangling
> >
> > I recently spent 30 minutes to an hour trying to figure out how to simply
> > "disable" or "prevent" or "exclude" or "quit" or "don't" or "stop" or
> > "please don't do this"
> > to a code block in my *.org files.  I don't want to mark the code block
> as
> > "text", unless there's really no other option.
> >
> > In my opinion, the documentation does not simply define how to do this
> > relatively common task.
> >
> > Can someone please point me in the right direction?  Also I would be
> > willing to submit a doc-fix or FAQ item if there is currently not an item
> > to do so.  I'm lost and do not want to spend more time on this seemingly
> > easy task.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --Nate
>
>
> --
> Tim Cross
>
>