Re: Bug: begin_src org :results replace does not work

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

"Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu> writes:

> On Mon, 29 May 2017, Vikas Rawal wrote:
>
>> Why does the replace keyword not work? It prepends the results. I have
>> tried both ":results value replace" and ":results output replace".
>>
>> I am on org-version 9.0.7
>>
>> Vikas
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> #+NAME: one
>> #+BEGIN_SRC org :results value replace export both
>> ,#+NAME: table-yield
>> ,#+CAPTION: Simple table created using latex tabular environment
>> ,#+attr_latex: :environment tabular :width \textwidth :align lrr
>>    | State          | Variable one | Varia two |
>>    |----------------+---------------+----------------|
>>    | MP             |           672 |          13000 |
>>    | Har            |           300 |          25000 |
>>    | Pun            |           260 |          35000 |
>> #+End_SRC
>>
>
> The problem is that the results you generate is a table with
> affiliated keywords NAME and CAPTION and ATTR_[backend].
>
> `org-at-table-p' does not recognize that the keywords are followed by
> a table.  Altering this function might be asking for trouble as it is
> used outside babel.
>
> So maybe the cond test should refer to `org-element-context' to better
> sort this out and correctly identify the table end.

Even though that change may be interesting on its own, it isn't a proper
solution here. 

Raw values cannot be replaced. The only possible handling is "prepend"
since Org cannot possibly know what the results are. For example, with
the following src block

  #+begin_src org
  Pargraph 1

  Paragaph 2
  #+end_src

Org cannot know if a raw "Parapraph 2" belongs the the results or is
a paragraph following them.

Since "raw" format is special, the most surprising thing here is that
Org src blocks use it as a default.

Anyway, I don't think there is anything to fix (except maybe the
documentation). The OP is requesting an impossible combination of
parameters.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou