* [babel-bug] Text properties silently stripped from code block evaluation results
@ 2011-12-13 22:19 Štěpán Němec
2011-12-14 1:26 ` Eric Schulte
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From: Štěpán Němec @ 2011-12-13 22:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
`org-babel-insert-result' unconditionally strips any text properties
from the evaluation result.
One problem is that this isn't documented. Another problem is that this
behaviour might not be desirable (I can't imagine why one _would_ want
to have the properties stripped, on the contrary -- I need them
preserved in at least one of my use cases).
Please document the behaviour and either abstain from the strip-tease
altogether or provide a way to switch it off.
--
Štěpán
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* Re: [babel-bug] Text properties silently stripped from code block evaluation results
2011-12-13 22:19 [babel-bug] Text properties silently stripped from code block evaluation results Štěpán Němec
@ 2011-12-14 1:26 ` Eric Schulte
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From: Eric Schulte @ 2011-12-14 1:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Štěpán Němec; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Štěpán Němec <stepnem@gmail.com> writes:
> `org-babel-insert-result' unconditionally strips any text properties
> from the evaluation result.
>
> One problem is that this isn't documented. Another problem is that this
> behaviour might not be desirable (I can't imagine why one _would_ want
> to have the properties stripped, on the contrary -- I need them
> preserved in at least one of my use cases).
>
> Please document the behaviour and either abstain from the strip-tease
> altogether or provide a way to switch it off.
The results of code blocks can be plain text or vectors of plain text,
Emacs-lisp textual object with properties are not a result type
supported by Org-mode code blocks. I think it would generally be more
surprising if /fancier/ elisp objects were returned rather than plain
text. Also, this would raise issues about how to pass properties to
other (non elisp) programming languages.
If you want to remove the property stripping behavior locally add the
following elisp snippet to your .emacs which should have the desired
effect.
(defun org-babel-clean-text-properties (it) it)
I just did this locally and all test cases still passed, so it should be
safe.
Best -- Eric
--
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
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