From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: "Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu>, "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
Cc: emacs-org list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, eschulte@cs.unm.edu
Subject: Re: Preventing RESULTS from being formatted as org table [ob-awk]
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:12:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY0mpS8hhDEKk3wtpX6yq0AfmBajPakxVpbOCWdx67EFFw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.20.1606121302340.831@charles-berrys-macbook.local>
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Hi Charles, Thomas,
Thank you for the replies. They were very useful.
I learned about :post for the first time. That minimal example worked
great. Earlier I was confused about "*this*", but then from Info node
"(org) post", I learned that it's a special variable for :post.
For now, ":results verbatim" does the job for me for awk source blocks. But
:post looks like a very powerful generic solution. With your reply, I at
least tried it out and I will keep that in mind for when I might need to
use it in future.
Kaushal
On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 5:02 PM Charles C. Berry <ccberry@ucsd.edu> wrote:
> TL;DR: That is almost correct. `:post' header arg gives fine control of
> formatting if needed.
>
> `org-babel-insert-result' formats anything that isn't a string or a list
> using "%S". Then it tries hard to turn a list into a "table". Lists that
> cannot be made into tables are formatted as strings with "%s\n". However,
> various languages have their own formatting principles, so what
> `org-babel-insert-result' gets as the `result' is a bit idiosyncratic.
>
> You can get a deeper look at the `result' by pretty printing it with the
> aid of a :post header arg. Example:
>
>
> #+NAME: I-feel-pretty
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :results pp
> *this*
> #+END_SRC
>
> This elisp list is not revised:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :post I-feel-pretty
> '(a b c (d . e))
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+RESULTS:
> : (a b c
> : (d . e))
>
> On Sun, 12 Jun 2016, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
> I think I'm correct to say that by default a single value result is
> output as a scalar, and everything else is converted to an Org mode
> table.
>
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Kaushal Modi
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-12 6:46 Preventing RESULTS from being formatted as org table [ob-awk] Kaushal Modi
2016-06-12 6:59 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-06-12 7:05 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-06-12 16:30 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-06-12 18:22 ` Thomas S. Dye
2016-06-12 18:41 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-06-12 19:29 ` Thomas S. Dye
2016-06-12 21:02 ` Charles C. Berry
2016-06-13 14:12 ` Kaushal Modi [this message]
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