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From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [babel] shell does not unquote
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 19:13:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iosrbr1m.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAJcAo8tK=ZnW7Vvm6-ZrUHNEfocmkG3FgeDsitHa8TiG_-9Y8Q@mail.gmail.com

Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:

> thanks for the examples, but they don't meet my needs as tables for
> each set of arguments would be too unwieldy.
>

How about this.

#+name: list
#+begin_src sh :var files="" :results verbatim
IFS="
"
for file in $files;do
  echo "-|$file|-"
done
#+end_src

#+call: list("1 space\nnospace")

#+RESULTS:
: -|1 space|-
: -|nospace|-

>
> what would be ideal is to allow setting noweb expansions in the call
> line (instead of requiring named blocks to provide the expansion).
> i.e. it is similar to setting a var, but is a noweb setting instead.
>
> then i would just do the call with the files i want, quoted the way i want.
>
> may i make this a feature request?
>

I'm not sure that the additional utility justifies the added complexity.

Best,

>
>
> On 2/6/14, Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> wrote:
>> #+name: files-tab
>> | with space |
>> | nospace    |
>>
>> #+name: files-ex
>> : with space
>> : nospace
>>
>> #+name: list
>> #+begin_src sh :var files="" :results verbatim
>> IFS="
>> "
>> for file in $files;do
>>   echo "-|$file|-"
>> done
>> #+end_src
>>
>> #+call: list(files-tab)
>>
>> #+RESULTS:
>> : -|with space|-
>> : -|nospace|-
>>
>> #+call: list(files-ex)
>>
>> #+RESULTS:
>> : -|with space|-
>> : -|nospace|-

-- 
Eric Schulte
https://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte
PGP: 0x614CA05D

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-07  2:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-05  5:49 [babel] shell does not unquote Samuel Wales
2014-02-06  0:49 ` Eric Schulte
2014-02-06  8:28   ` Samuel Wales
2014-02-06 20:12     ` Eric Schulte
2014-02-06 21:55       ` Samuel Wales
2014-02-07  2:13         ` Eric Schulte [this message]
2014-02-09  1:39           ` Samuel Wales
2014-02-10  3:18             ` Eric Schulte

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