I don't recall how I learned about that, I guess maybe in some library of
babel documentation somewhere. I confirmed it does work in 8.2.10, e.g.
just with emacs -Q.

There are a few changes in org 9 to org-babel-lob-execute-maybe
and org-babel-lob-get-info that seem to be the root cause of the change.
Notably, org-babel-lob-get-info now returns nil where it used to return the
"path" to the file and block.

So, if I put this into an org file

(progn
 (re-search-forward "call")
 (message "%s" (org-babel-lob-get-info)))   ;<- execute here


#+call: remote-call.org:test-block()

These get returned

In 8.2.10: "(remote-call.org:test-block() nil 0 nil)"
In 9.1.6: "nil"

I am not sure what all the differences are, but it seems to be where the
change in behavior came from.

John

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On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 2:49 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>
> > In org8 I used to be able to call remote code blocks (
> > http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2016/02/09/Calling-
> remote-code-blocks-in-org-mode/
> > )
> >
> > with a syntax like:
> >
> > #+call: si.org:figure-1() :wrap html
> >
> > And C-c C-c on that line would call a code block named figure-1 in the
> file
> > si.org and insert the results.
> >
> > in org 9.1.6, this does nothing. Does anyone know if this got changed,
> and
> > if there is a new way to do that?
>
> This sounds like a bug.
>
> It does ring a bell. However, I couldn't find any reference to this
> syntax or behaviour in the manual. Am I missing something?
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>