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From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: Sebastien Vauban <sva-news@mygooglest.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: odd behavior for begin_src org :results
Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 09:53:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877gjcytbh.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86fvy4bj4l.fsf@somewhere.org

"Sebastien Vauban" <sva-news@mygooglest.com> writes:

> Hello Greg,
>
> Greg Minshall wrote:
>> It appears that only *string* values are allowed for any :var that are
>> defined (i.e., ':var bar="foo"', and *not* ':var bar=3').
>
> Confirmed. The following does not work.
>
> #+begin_src org :results drawer replace :var you=2
> Hello $you
> #+end_src
>
>> since i'm not 100% sure of the semantics, maybe this is desired.
>
> I dunno either. Clearly, an error should not happen. OTOH, there is no concept
> of Org variable, so every variable here comes down to be implemented as a
> simple string replacement, hence the need for strings only, maybe.
>

I've applied a simple fix which will allow any type of object to be
inserted into an Org-mode code block.  Although there is a great deal of
potential for more sophisticated behavior here, hopefully this simple
solution will suffice.

>
> Best regards,
>   Seb

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte

      reply	other threads:[~2013-05-06 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-01 19:08 odd behavior for begin_src org :results Greg Minshall
2013-05-01 20:01 ` Eric Schulte
2013-05-01 21:57   ` Greg Minshall
2013-05-03  7:46     ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-05-03 15:53       ` Eric Schulte [this message]

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