Re: [O] Tangling to Multiple Files

[Eric Schulte]

Alan Lue <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi, how does one tangle a single code block to multiple files?
>
> I thought the following might work, but unfortunately it does not.
>
> Set the frame size.
> #+HEADERS: :tangle user-host-a.el user-host-b.el
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
>   (setq initial-frame-alist '((width . 80) (height . 38)))
> #+END_SRC
>
> To provide some background, I'm using =org-babel-load-file= in my
> init.el file to load up my Emacs configuration from an Org file—call it
> "user.org." I'd like to use just one user.org file across multiple
> computers, however, meaning I'd like user.org to tangle into
> user-host-a.el and user-host-b.el, for instance.
>
> The configurations are only slightly different, so I'd like to be able
> to selectively indicate to Org-mode which code blocks to tangle
> into.
>
>

You could try something like the following to tangle out to a different
file on each machine.

  :tangle (format "%s.el" system-name)

or

  :tangle (format "%s.el" user-login-name)

Hope this helps,

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte