From: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
To: Maurizio Vitale <maurizio.vitale@polymath-solutions.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-babel feature request
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:32:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r5ta1rgd.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y6niws4r.fsf@polymath-solutions.com> (Maurizio Vitale's message of "Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:01:40 -0400")
Maurizio Vitale <maurizio.vitale@polymath-solutions.com> writes:
>>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
>
> Dan> Maurizio Vitale
> Dan> <mav@cuma.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>
> Dan> writes:
>
> Dan> [...]
>
> >> It would be nice if it was possible to have multiple result
> >> sections. This way I could embed in the document the result that
> >> was obtained when writing the documentation, while still allowing
> >> the person following the recipe to evaluate again the shell
> >> script and get the results on his machine.
> >>
> >> The first section should be read-only (not necessarily physically
> >> read-only, but skipped by C-c C-c). The others may be
> >> re-evaluated over and over until the end user has a valid
> >> configuration.
>
> Dan> Hi Maurizio,
>
> Dan> Once I've obtained the results that I want to "freeze", I would
> Dan> manually alter (or even delete) the #+resname tag, so that the
> Dan> source block no longer overwrites it. Is that simple solution
> Dan> appropriate? I'm not yet seeing the advantage of the more
> Dan> complex possibilities.
>
> That is the obvious possibility, but at times you may want to
> re-evaluate those: either the configuration has changed, or the software
> you're documenting has changed or the script you're using is buggy.
>
> Yes you could reintroduce the #+resname tag when needed, but I'm hoping
> to get more automation than M-x shell-command-on-region.
The other, perhaps nicer, thing you can do is change the #+srcname of
the block which has the effect of changing the results block. You can do
that now. But maybe we could allow the user to over-ride the default way
in which the #+resname tag is set? E.g. by adding a :resname header
argument.
Something like this:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+srcname: test2
#+begin_src sh :resname test2-redirected
expr 2 + 3
#+end_src
#+resname: test2
: 4
#+resname: test2-redirected
: 5
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Do you think that would be worthwhile?
Dan
>
> I've just started using org-babel in this way, so I'm not sure at all of
> what features I'll feel in the end needed. This seems one right now.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Maurizio
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-11 4:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-11 1:23 org-babel feature request Maurizio Vitale
2009-10-11 2:45 ` Dan Davison
2009-10-11 3:01 ` Maurizio Vitale
2009-10-11 4:32 ` Dan Davison [this message]
2009-10-11 14:05 ` Maurizio Vitale
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