You can `:tangle no' on the source block to exclude it from tangling. You can even tangle one source block to a different or as many files as you like during tangling. Sincerely,
Grant Rettke On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Joon Ro <joon...@outlook.com> wrote: > can one tangle only the current blocks under header or can you only tangle > the whole file? > the issue is again for dotfiles managed by org that these files are not > proper org babel languages and look like this: > > #+BEGIN_SRC conf :mkdirp yes :tangle ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf > softvol-max=600 > #+END_SRC > > the manual (http://orgmode.org/manual/Extracting-source-code.html) only > shows how to tangle the whole file > > any ideas? > > > If you read the help for org-babel-tangle: > > With one universal prefix argument, only tangle the block at point. > When two universal prefix arguments, only tangle blocks for the > tangle file of the block at point. > > > So if you do c-u first before org-babel-tangle, it will only tangle the code > block at point. > I use this a lot so I have the following in my init file: > > (defun org-babel-tangle-block() > (interactive) > (let ((current-prefix-arg '(4))) > (call-interactively 'org-babel-tangle))) > > (eval-after-load "org" > '(progn > (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c b") 'org-babel-tangle-block))) > > > So I can just do C-c b and it will just tangle the code block at point. > > And I agree with you I with the manual > (http://orgmode.org/manual/Extracting-source-code.html) has this > information. > > Hope this helps, > Joon >