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So, say I have a literate org file as follows:

#+TITLE: Random Scrap

* Do something
:PROPERTIES:
:tangle: scrap.pl
:comments: org
:END:

#+BEGIN_SRC perl
  sub my_func{
    my $var = pop;
#+END_SRC

some thoughts here..
and the func continues...
#+BEGIN_SRC perl
    my $var1 = $var+1;
 }
#+END_SRC

Tangling it to source using C-c C-v C-t gives me the following ugly code:

# Do something
# :PROPERTIES:
# :tangle: scrap.pl
# :comments: org
# :END:


sub my_func{
  my $var = pop;



# some thoughts here..
# and the func continues...


my $var1 = $var+1;
}

My questions are:

  1. Is there a simple way to preserve indentation across source blocks, when all of them are going to tangle to a single file?

  2. Is there a way to avoid the # :PROPERTIES: ... # :END: text to come to the header?

It would be great to have the first feature available. Org mode is a great tool for documenting source code. However, the wrong indentations put it off sometimes. At times, I break the code into fragments that indent properly. At other times, it is required to break code elsewhere, and causes issues like this.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT

(setq org-src-preserve-indentation t) solved my problem partially. The output tangled file now goes like:

# Do something
# :PROPERTIES:
# :tangle: scrap.pl
# :comments: org
# :END:


  sub my_func{
    my $var = pop;



# some thoughts here..
# and the func continues...


    my $var1 = $var+1;
  }

However, the comments are still out of indentation. Also, the responsibility of maintaining indentation now lies with me. And the header text is as is...

Any comments/answers? I feel this solution is a bit hacky...

deejay
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  • Wanted to thank you for posting this, it clued me in to the problem I was having with indentation in source block output in HTML publishing. – EdwinW Oct 12 '17 at 19:08
  • I know that this might not be what you want to hear but, maybe you could refactor your code so that you don't need to write a paragraph of thoughts in the middle of the function code? I would consider that to be a "code smell"[1] telling me that I have to break up that function in more manageable parts. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_smell – Martín Feb 16 '18 at 23:34
  • @Martín Agreed. That's what I eventually did. Thanks for the comment! – deejay Feb 17 '18 at 05:33

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