From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Cc: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>,
emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Thomas Alexander Gerds <tag@biostat.ku.dk>
Subject: Re: can babel results show time of evaluation?
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:58:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wquuz8tx.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87libao4r1.fsf@gmail.com> (Nicolas Goaziou's message of "Wed, 30 Jan 2013 20:22:26 +0100")
Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I've just pushed this functionality up to the main branch. To make use
>> of it add the following to your Emacs config.
>>
>> (setq org-babel-hash-show-time t)
>>
>> It works for me in some simple tests, and I can confirm that with this
>> variable set to nil, I get no new failures in the Org-mode test suite,
>> so it shouldn't introduce any problems.
>
> Well, it breaks the parser, somehow. Indeed, it expects from an
> affiliated keyword such as #+results: (or #+caption for that matter) to
> have only one secondary value. Sexp representation of these keywords is
> already very complicated, it will not help to add values ad nauseum.
>
> Also, if you use Org time-stamp syntax, at some point, someone will ask
> the parser to be able to parse it. And it won't.
>
> Eventually, it doesn't help to have hash syntax match Org links. This is
> confusing.
>
> Therefore, if this feature really has to be introduced, I suggest, at
> the very least, to avoid using Org regular syntax for the reference to
> time. It would also help to blur distinction between the time and the
> hash string. Perhaps something like the following:
>
> #+results[2013-01-30T20:15:37 hash-string]: name
>
> Thank you.
>
Are there instances aside from "#+results" where one would want to pack
ancillary information into a keyword?
Perhaps both the hash and the time should be moved *outside* the
keyword, e.g. something like the following,
#+Results: name time hash
What do you think?
>
>
> Regards,
--
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-30 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-28 8:57 can babel results show time of evaluation? Thomas Alexander Gerds
2013-01-30 10:56 ` Bastien
2013-01-30 12:26 ` Thomas Alexander Gerds
2013-01-30 17:09 ` Eric Schulte
2013-01-30 17:26 ` Bastien
2013-01-30 17:54 ` Bastien
2013-01-30 18:38 ` Thomas Alexander Gerds
2013-01-30 21:00 ` Eric Schulte
2013-01-30 21:13 ` Achim Gratz
2013-01-31 11:05 ` Bastien
2013-01-31 10:22 ` Bastien
2013-01-30 19:22 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-01-30 20:58 ` Eric Schulte [this message]
2013-01-30 21:21 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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