Re: [FR, DISCUSSION] Re: [:results append] and [:wrap ...] don't play well together

[Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu>]

Ihor,

thanks for your e-mail and explanation.

> We may clarify this in the manual.

probably worth doing.  though, trying to describe it succinctly will be
a challenge, i think!

> Another alternative could be treating
> :results append drawer/code/pp/org/latex/html
> differently and putting everything into a single drawer/src/export
> environment like:
> 
> #+begin_src R :results append :wrap foo
> Sys.time()
> #+end_src
> 
> #3:
> 
> #+RESULTS:
> #+begin_foo
> 2021-03-31 05:51:08
> 2021-03-31 05:51:10
> 2021-03-31 05:51:12
> #+end_foo
> 
> However, changing the behaviour will be a breaking change, which we do
> not want for the sake of back-compatibility.
> 
> Instead, we may introduce something like
> :results append-contents drawer
> that will behave like the above.
> 
> Is there a demand to have such a feature?

i suspect that at some point, it would be nice to have org be able to
"understand" how results of previous evaluations are laid out in the
buffer.  whether the need is now, i'm not sure (i can live without it).
(in the documentation you suggest above, it may help to have such an
option to point at; i.e., "if you don't really understand this, but want
something like this, try this option" :)

cheers, Greg