Hi Chuck,

Thanks for looking into this. How difficult/desirable would it be to create
another block such as "wrap-block" for those blocks created with ":wrap"?
That way, the needed change would be rather elegant:

:line 2478 of ob-core.el:
| ;; Possible results types.
|      '(drawer example-block export-block fixed-width item
|       plain-list src-block table *wrap-block*)

What would the repercussions be if `special-block' is added to the list?


Regards,
Carlos


On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 5:01 PM Berry, Charles <ccberry@ucsd.edu> wrote:

>
>
> > On Oct 24, 2018, at 2:29 PM, Carlos García <carloscg@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi List,
> >
> > The functionality of replacing blocks using ":wrap" seems to be broken.
> > In this email [1] from 2014, a user reported that this was working:
> >
> > ,----
> > | * A
> > |
> > | #+header: :results raw replace :wrap
> > | #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> > |   (+ 2 2)
> > | #+end_src
> > |
> > | #+results:
> > | #+BEGIN_RESULTS
> > | 4
> > | #+END_RESULTS
> > `----
> >
> > i'm running orgmode 9.1.14 and the "BEGIN_RESULTS" blocks are not
> getting overwritten. Can anybody else reproduce this problem?
> >
>
>
> Confirmed.
>
> The issue is that the #+BEGIN/END_results is a `special-block', which is
> not recognized in `org-babel-result-end' as a result type.
>
> I think the fix is to add it.
>
> If the intention is to NOT recognize special-blocks as results, then the
> empty :wrap needs to have some other effect, like enclosing the result in a
> drawer.
>
> HTH,
>
> Chuck
>
>