From fd72b1680ad33c4976c588471b03144655b62911 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Pearce
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 12:04:38 +0200
Subject: Emacs: Tangle init file asynchronously

---
 tag-emacs/emacs.d/init.org | 23 +++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

(limited to 'tag-emacs/emacs.d/init.org')

diff --git a/tag-emacs/emacs.d/init.org b/tag-emacs/emacs.d/init.org
index 18a6f97e..1f0dd1ee 100644
--- a/tag-emacs/emacs.d/init.org
+++ b/tag-emacs/emacs.d/init.org
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #+TITLE: Emacs Configuration for Alan Pearce
 #+PROPERTY: results silent
 #+PROPERTY: eval no-export
-#+PROPERTY: header-args :tangle yes :comments link
+#+PROPERTY: header-args :comments link
 * Introduction
 This is a living document, detailing my Emacs configuration using org-mode
 * Basics
@@ -2464,7 +2464,8 @@ the buffer for me.
 * Tangling
 
 Taken from [[https://github.com/larstvei/dot-emacs/blob/master/init.org][larstvei/dot-emacs]]. I changed it so that it would work with
-my current dotfiles repository structure.
+my current dotfiles repository structure and work asynchronously,
+thanks to [[https://github.com/jwiegley/emacs-async][jwiegley/emacs-async]].
 
 We can use =C-c C-v t= to run =org-babel-tangle=, which extracts the
 code blocks from the current file into a source-specific file (in this
@@ -2475,15 +2476,25 @@ to the =after-save-hook= ensuring to always tangle and byte-compile
 the =org=-document after changes.
 
 #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
+  (req-package async)
+
   (defun tangle-init ()
     "If the current buffer is 'init.org' the code-blocks are
       tangled, and the tangled file is compiled."
 
     (when (string-suffix-p "init.org" (buffer-file-name))
-      ;; Avoid running hooks when tangling.
-      (let ((prog-mode-hook nil))
-        (org-babel-tangle)
-        (byte-compile-file (concat user-emacs-directory "init.el")))))
+      (async-start
+       `(lambda ()
+          ;; Avoid running hooks when tangling.
+          (let ((prog-mode-hook nil)
+                (dest (concat user-emacs-directory "init.el")))
+            (find-file ,(buffer-file-name))
+            (require 'ob-tangle)
+            (org-babel-tangle nil dest)
+            (byte-compile-file dest)
+            dest))
+       (lambda (result)
+         (message "Init tangling completed: %s" result)))))
 #+END_SRC
 
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