Juan Manuel Macías <maciasch...@posteo.net> writes: > On the other hand, I have a curiosity. I understand that the behavior of > the `:comments org' option should be left intact to ensure backwards > compatibility. But I've always wondered if there is any use case where > this value, as it behaves, might be practical. I don't quite understand > how useful all the Org metadata in the comments of the tangled file can > be. The expectation with `:comments org' is that only the content of the > Org document will be rendered (as comments), but not its metadata, that > all they do is unnecessarily fatten up the source file. I'm thinking, > for example, of headers with lots of properties. or comment blocks, > which would be visible in the tangled source file:
The original proposal by Eric Schulte: https://list.orgmode.org/4bffee4f.5010...@ccbr.umn.edu/ >>> Maybe we should allow either exporting just the headlines of the >>> org-mode file or exporting the entire org-mode file -- possibly after an >>> ASCII export -- this would have the effect of prefixing every line in >>> the org-mode file behind a comment *except* for the tangled source-code >>> blocks. Clearly, the "possible after an ASCII export" dropped somewhere in the middle. Best, Ihor