Re: [SUMMARY] #9 [[bbb:OrgMeetup]] on Wed, July 10, 19:00 UTC+3

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com> writes:

> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
>
>>   - Aside, built-in ox-odt has quite a history
>>     - Its original author is... (to say) no longer interested to deal
>>       with FSF copyright assignment (it was quite a drama at some point)
>
> Out of curiosity, would you happen to have a reference to associated
> discussion in case it happened on a public mailing list?  I am curious
> as to the reasons.

https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/87ppydmigz.fsf@gmail.com/t/#u

>>   - Oh well. ~org-sbe~ is a hack (on top of
>>     ~org-babel-execute-src-block~) in reality and not a properly
>>     designed API
>>   - One day we need to implement something better
>>   - Patches welcome! At least, it is a good idea to start a discussion
>>     on the mailing list. See https://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html#Feedback
>
> Could you please elaborate on what about ~org-sbe~ makes it a "hack"?
> On a related note, what would "something better" look like?

Because it uses `org-babel-execute-src-block', which works with code
block at point. `org-sbe' tries to make it work with code blocks that
are not at point, against `org-babel-execute-src-block' docstring.

Something better would be a proper API function that can execute code
block at arbitrary location, not just at point. Such API function is
likely something to be factored out from `org-babel-execute-src-block'
and many helper functions it uses.

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