This first version is a butched draft. A complete version should support:
at the very least, noweb
if possible, default values for header arguments in document preamble.
Quick notes for a possible rewriting:
Use Haskell! Pandoc can do 99% of the job. A Pandoc AST holds the code blocks with header arguments parsed, and extra indentation removed. Only noweb would remain to handle.
noweb can also be used to include the results of a code block, by including it like this:
<<block_name(optional arguments)>>
I don't think I'll ever support this, as it would mean rewriting most of org-babel, and I really don't see a use case for it. (Also, code blocks could be elisp, which means actually running from inside Emacs)
A different approach to noweb could be to let Org handle it, if it's not too slow. Let org expand noweb references, capture the result and tangle.
Parsing org headers is probably hard, replacing them with command-line arguments would be easier.
This first version is a butched draft. A complete version should support:
Quick notes for a possible rewriting:
I don't think I'll ever support this, as it would mean rewriting most of org-babel, and I really don't see a use case for it. (Also, code blocks could be elisp, which means actually running from inside Emacs)