Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> writes:

> Yes, I experimented with this too -- and got it to work. But strangely, if you leave out the 
>
> # eval: (org-babel-lob-ingest "./a.org")
> # eval: (org-babel-lob-ingest "./b.org")
>
> lines and do a regular `org-babel-lob-ingest` (or  C-c C-v i) on those
> two files -- it doesn't work. Rather bizarre behavior, IMHO.
>

I think you have some misconceptions about what org-babel-lob-ingest
does. All it does is go through the file and add the named source
blocks in that file to org-babel-library-of-babel: it does *not*
evaluate the code blocks. So if the code block is e.g. a lisp code
block with a defun in it, the function is *not* defined, until the
code block is evaluated by org-babel: that's what org-sbe does.

> Anyway, the dream behavior for LOB would be to simply add your files to your `org-babel-lob-files` in your Emacs init, start up an org file -- and be able to simply use all the LOB
> files in your "live" `org-babel-library-of-babel` list library.
>

You can do that but again all that does is populate a list that
only org-babel knows about. You'd still need to evaluate the code
blocks in order to tell the inferior lisp process about what the
code block define.

--
Nick