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Support mkdirp tags in source block

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
lua
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start with the Org-mode manual section linked in the issue and locate the source-block tangling entry point in the Lua implementation. Check how header arguments are parsed and how parent directories are handled. Done means mkdirp: yes creates missing parent directories for tangled files, while mkdirp: no does not.

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Description

enhancement
Does this feature exist in Emacs orgmode core?

Yes

Orgmode link

https://orgmode.org/manual/Extracting-Source-Code.html

Feature value

The ‘mkdirp’ header argument creates parent directories for tangled files if the directory does not exist. A ‘yes’ value enables directory creation whereas ‘no’ inhibits it.

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