Andreas Leha <andreas.l...@med.uni-goettingen.de> writes: > Eric Schulte <eric.schu...@gmx.com> writes: > >> Leo Alekseyev <dnqu...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> I was wondering if there was an easy way to execute some shell >>> commands contained in a src block as root. Alternatively, is there a >>> quick way to export _just_ that one source block to a temp file so >>> that I could run it as root manually? >>> >> >> Just call org-babel-tangle with a prefix argument and it only tangles >> the current block >> >>> > > Hi, > > I did not know this either. Thanks for the hint! > > Shouldn't this be mentioned in the manual (14.4)? > > I have two questions/issues about this: > (1) Can I get noweb-references to be expanded by this? Or how would I > tangle one block with noweb references expanded?
There was a conflict between the narrowing to a single code block caused by the prefix argument, and the code which searches for replacements to noweb elements. I've just pushed up a fix so noweb elements should now expand as normal. > > (2) I am asked for a filename. But the header argument :tangle somefile > is overruling my input, which is un-expected. > This is now fixed as well. Thanks, > > Regards, > Andreas > > -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/