From: Matt Huszagh <huszaghmatt@gmail.com>
To: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: incorrect documentation for file-desc header argument?
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 18:19:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d04ddck8.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ime6ap5p.fsf@kyleam.com>
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Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> writes:
> Yeah, that looks to be the intended result of that thread. That
> thread's patch was applied with a58a4f0ad (new source block header
> argument :filelinkdescr, 2012-03-27). However, shortly after, that
> treatment was intentionally changed (670c7f31c, 2012-03-31):
>
> simplified implementation of :file-desc header argument
>
> This will no longer insert the value of the :file header argument as
> the description if the description is left blank (as this changes
> the meaning of the :file header argument).
>
> The desc handling logic is moved to the `org-babel-result-to-file'
> function.
>
> So, I'd say this is a documentation bug.
Thanks for the clarification Kyle. I've attached a patch that I believe
clarifies the documentation to match the current behavior.
Matt
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From a9cd13f3d7b120a24b3416f8f8ba0892a8e47221 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Huszagh <huszaghmatt@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 22:10:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] org-manual.org: Modify file-desc header argument to match
action
---
doc/org-manual.org | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/org-manual.org b/doc/org-manual.org
index b61644626..0f012d4df 100644
--- a/doc/org-manual.org
+++ b/doc/org-manual.org
@@ -17436,9 +17436,8 @@ default behavior is to automatically determine the result type.
#+cindex: @samp{file-desc}, header argument
The =file-desc= header argument defines the description (see
- [[*Link Format]]) for the link. If =file-desc= has no value, Org
- uses the generated file name for both the "link" and
- "description" parts of the link.
+ [[*Link Format]]) for the link. If =file-desc= has no value, the
+ "description" part of the link will be omitted.
#+cindex: @samp{sep}, header argument
By default, Org assumes that a table written to a file has
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-30 1:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-29 4:35 Matt Huszagh
2020-07-29 4:50 ` Matt Huszagh
2020-07-29 5:03 ` Kyle Meyer
2020-07-29 7:41 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-07-30 1:19 ` Matt Huszagh [this message]
2020-07-30 2:29 ` Kyle Meyer
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