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From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Error with :wrap org in babel and 8.0-pre
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:37:41 -0600
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tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>
>>> - Can we prune some options/syntax that's no longer necessary? For
>>> example, what does =:wrap= (no argument provided) do?
>>
>> Wrap has been deprecated for some time.  Perhaps it has been long enough
>> that we can go ahead and remove it entirely from the code and
>> documentation at this point.
>>
>
> I think :wrap is useful.  It provides a very direct way to generate code
> that can be exported to an arbitrary LaTeX environment.  Say I find a new
> LaTeX package that defines a =cutemarkup= environment, so I want
> something like this the LaTeX file:
>
> \begin{cutemarkup}
> ...
> \end{cutemarkup}
>
> Then, with babel:
>
> #+begin_src lang :wrap cutemarkup
> ...
> #+end_src
>
> gets me what I want,
>
> #+begin_cutemarkup
> ...
> #+end_cutemarkup
>
> IIRC, this is one reason why :wrap is there (thanks, Eric).
>
> Perhaps this result is possible some other way? I don't know, but it
> seems to me that :wrap is still potentially useful and we might want to
> keep it around.
>
> Tom

Hi Tom,

This is a reasonable use case, and I personally don't know of another
way to get these results.  So I guess it is just the use of wrap to
delimit Org-mode results which is deprecated, and we *do* still have a
use for the ":wrap" header argument in general.

Thanks,

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