Re: [Pre-PATCH v2] Add the capability to specify lexical scope in tangled files (was: Add new :lexical header argument)

[Timothy]

Hi Ihor,

> 2. More importantly, we are adding ob-emacs-lisp-specific handling into
>    generic ob-tangle.
>
> What about generalizing the idea and providing a way to set Emacs
> buffer-local variables in the tangled files?

Looking at this patch earlier, I had the same concern. I think it’s worth being
paranoid about a proliferation of overly-specialised ob-tangle arguments.

It occurs to me that this use case could also perhaps be satisfied by file-local
variables? If we presume that mixing tangling to lexically-bound and
non-lexically bound elisp files is a corner case we don’t care that much about,
a `org-babel-elisp-lexical' variable could be used to set the behaviour, and
modified using file-local variable forms as usual.

All the best,
Timothy

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