Hi Max,

On 2023-02-24 at 19:51 -08, Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25/02/2023 01:33, Ken Mankoff wrote:
> I am unsure if Org markup is suitable for commit messages (~:var~)
> since it may appear in Emacs commit logs.

Fixed.

> The code still depends on on ob-shell. Is there a reason why calling
> `org-babel-variable-assignments:shell' is a worse variant than copy of
> the whole function body?

I didn't realize that was a dependency. I now use that function. This also means that arrays/tables/etc. are all supported by :var, although not in the default screen ":cmd sh" because sh doesn't support "declare", but it works with ":cmd bash".

Improved patch attached.

Thanks,

  -k.