Re: How to get a block’s contents by name

[George Mauer]

Well that pains me on a software-engineer-aip-design level but that works! Thanks a lot.

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 8:22 PM Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:

George Mauer writes:

> I'm trying to figure out how I could fetch the contents of another block by
> name from an elisp script
>
> I've seen `org-sbe` but I just want to get the block contents, (ideally
> with noweb and vars filled in - just as it would be tangled if we were to
> tangle it)
>
> How do I do that?

How about something like this?

  (save-excursion
    (goto-char (org-babel-find-named-block "b"))
    (org-babel-expand-src-block))