That's starting to sound pretty good.

It might make sense to fix up inserted "file:" links that are under the
attachment directory to be "attachment:" style links by default anyway, no?
Then just being able to set the working directory to the attachment
directory easily would get the rest of the way there.

So I suppose that would then mean having the :dir header accept the symbol
`attach' or something like that?
I'll play around and see what that looks like.

On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 8:09 PM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> wrote:

> Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu> writes:
>
> > i can imagine wanting to have input files and
> > output files in separate directories.  (for ease in "make clean", if for
> > no other conceptual reason.)  (but, probably i don't understand.)
>
> Makes sense. Currently, there is :dir header arg to set working
> directory (aka input files directory). Maybe we can introduce something
> like :results-dir header arg to set the output directory? It's value can
> be a directory path or symbol 'attach.
>
> `:results file :results-dir 'attach` will be equivalent of
> `:results file attach` in the patch proposed by Ryan Scott.
>
> WDYT?
>
> Best,
> Ihor
>