Re: [External] : Re: [BUG] executing sh source block with ':results none' encounters error region is longer than org-table-convert-region-max-lines [9.6-pre (release_9.5.5-1118-g70cee1 @ /home/dortmann/src/git-org-mode/lisp/)]

[Daniel Ortmann <daniel.ortmann@oracle.com>]

I am happy with whatever you decide.  :-)

On 11/20/22 20:34, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> Daniel Ortmann <daniel.ortmann@oracle.com> writes:
>
>> Please see attached which has the following code which reproduces the issue:
>>
>> #+begin_src sh :shebang #!/bin/bash :results none
>> for (( i=1500 ; i>0 ; i-=1 ))
>> do
>>       head -c 6 /dev/urandom | uuencode -m -
>> done |
>> tee /dev/null
>> #+end_src
> Thanks!
>
> I was able to reproduce. However, this particular error appears to be
> intentional.
>
> `org-table-convert-region-max-lines' has been introduced explicitly for
> such scenarios because table conversion may take significant time when
> the output is large.
>
> I think we can do 2 things to address the problem:
>
> 1. Tweak the error wording. Probably to something like
>     Babel result processing: Region is longer than `org-table-convert-region-max-lines' (%s) lines; not converting
>
> 2. Maybe introduce something like :results ignore to discard the results
>     completely.
>