Re: [PATCH] ob-tangle.el: Speed up tangling

[Timothy]

Sébastien Miquel <sebastien.miquel@posteo.eu> writes:

> On second thought, I'm uneasy about my approach. If tangling fails,
> the user might miss the error message since it is quickly replaced by
> the tangling info. Ideally we should backup all the tangled files and
> restore them all if a single one fails to ensure we're back to a
> consistent state.
>
> I'm unsure what would be best practices here. In case of a remote
> tangled files, I don't know if temporary files should be remote or
> not, and what guarantees do emacs primitives such as ~rename-file~
> offer.

Just 2c from me on how I'd like this to work as a user, when tangling
fails:
+ Every file that could be tangled is tangled, or there's a variable
  which controls what to do on an error
+ Loud message at the end that lists all files which files failed to
  tangle

--
Timothy