Consider a lisp form that, when evaluated, produces another form. I'm used to org printing the resulting form nicely, in lisp blocks. However, this is not the case for emacs-lisp src blocks. An example: 1. The way it should be (and is now the case) with lisp, namely sbcl: #+begin_src lisp :results value verbatim :wrap example lisp (macroexpand '(defun test (a b &optional c) "doc" nil)) #+end_src #+RESULTS: #+begin_example lisp (PROGN (EVAL-WHEN (:COMPILE-TOPLEVEL) (SB-C:%COMPILER-DEFUN 'TEST T NIL NIL)) (SB-IMPL::%DEFUN 'TEST (SB-INT:NAMED-LAMBDA TEST (A B &OPTIONAL C) "doc" (BLOCK TEST NIL)))) T #+end_example 2. The way it is now with emacs-lisp and a src block header that is otherwise identical: #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results value verbatim :wrap example emacs-lisp (macroexpand '(use-package outline :ensure nil :bind (:map outline-mode-map ("" . (lambda nil (interactive) (outline-up-heading 1)))))) #+end_src #+RESULTS: #+begin_example emacs-lisp (progn (use-package-ensure-elpa 'outline '(nil) 'nil) (defvar use-package--warning157 #'(lambda (keyword err) (let ((msg (format "%s/%s: %s" 'outline keyword (error-message-string err)))) (display-warning 'use-package msg :error)))) (condition-case-unless-debug err (progn (if (not (require 'outline nil t)) (display-warning 'use-package (format "Cannot load %s" 'outline) :error)) (bind-keys :package outline :map outline-mode-map ("" lambda nil (interactive) (outline-up-heading 1)))) (error (funcall use-package--warning157 :catch err)))) #+end_example Is there a remedy? This probably better be fixed but it could be due to me using bleeding-edge Emacs 27 master (2019-09-10) & Org from melpa (2019-09-09). If you don't have proper output formatting with other versions in use, please report.