> I stumbled upon some confusing behavior today. I am working on a > literate program which is published as I push commits. Some sections are > commented out so the won't export while I am still working on them. > > I was trying to evaluate a source block that used some noweb expansion > and ran into an issue where my named block was not expanding as > expected. Eventually I realized it was because the section I am working > in is commented, and the source must be skipped during expansion. > > The following demonstrates the issue (assuming you don't already have a > symbol named goo defined) > > * COMMENT Test Commented NoWeb > #+name: goo > #+begin_src elisp > (defun goo () (print "goo")) > #+end_src > > #+begin_src elisp :results output :noweb yes > <<goo>> > (goo) > #+end_src > > Is this the desired behavior? Is there a different approach to use > commented sections of an org-mode document while iterating with source > blocks? > > Thank you, > Grant >
I'm guessing you mean expand and not evaluate? When I hit "C-c C-c" on both of the blocks in your example, they are evaluated just fine. Le dim. 28 juin 2026 à 16:05, Grant Shoshin Shangreaux <[email protected]> a écrit : > > I stumbled upon some confusing behavior today. I am working on a > literate program which is published as I push commits. Some sections are > commented out so the won't export while I am still working on them. > > I was trying to evaluate a source block that used some noweb expansion > and ran into an issue where my named block was not expanding as > expected. Eventually I realized it was because the section I am working > in is commented, and the source must be skipped during expansion. > > The following demonstrates the issue (assuming you don't already have a > symbol named goo defined) > > * COMMENT Test Commented NoWeb > #+name: goo > #+begin_src elisp > (defun goo () (print "goo")) > #+end_src > > #+begin_src elisp :results output :noweb yes > <<goo>> > (goo) > #+end_src > > Is this the desired behavior? Is there a different approach to use > commented sections of an org-mode document while iterating with source > blocks? > > Thank you, > Grant > > > > > >
