Re: ":results none" doesn't seem to be documented

[Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>]

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Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de> writes:

> Fabrice Niessen <fni-news@pirilampo.org> writes:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Andreas Leha wrote:
>>> Kodi Arfer <kodi@arfer.net> writes:
>>>> "none" is allowed as an argument to :results (see, for example,
>>>> ob-core.el line 704 as of Git d36bd8d), but this isn't mentioned in
>>>> results.html. I just learned of its existence while reading
>>>> ob-core.el.
>>>>
>>>> To me, by the way, ":results none" seems like a useful feature rather
>>>> than being redundant with ":results silent", because it won't attempt
>>>> to print a massive object to the echo area. (Pehaps "silent" wasn't a
>>>> great choice of name.)
>>>
>>> Especially given that ":results none" prints "results silenced" in the
>>> echo area.  Should rather be "results nonced" ;-)
>>
>> They're not the same...
>
> I know.  I just wanted to stress the unfortunate naming.  Unfortunate,
> because if you want the source block to produce "results silenced" you
> must not specify ":results silent", but rather ":results none"

No - I do not are here (but it is sematics...): ~:results silent~
implies for me that there *are* results, but they are passed to org
silently, without any fuss (read: output in the org document). If I read
~:results none~ it imlies to me that ther *are none results* returned -
neither i org intrnally (e.g. variables) or output (e.g. in org
document). So the naming makes sense to me, but I was not aware of the
~none~.

Cheers,

Rainer

> which is
> counter intuitive.
>
>>
>> Extract from my modest (and still "work in progress") Org-Babel
>> refcard [1]:
>>
>> - :results silent ::
>>      Sends the commands, echoes the results in the minibuffer (to see
>>      code block output), but *does not change the Org mode buffer* (even
>>      during export, *no results are inserted* into the exported
>>      document).
>>      (default for Org and Screen code blocks)
>>
>> - :results none ::
>>      Silents the results, even for the minibuffer.  By definition, such
>>      a code block is run for its side effects.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Fabrice
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/fniessen/refcard-org-babel
>
> That looks nice!
>
>
> Andreas
>
>
>

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