Re: Confusion about org-confirm-babel-evaluate's behavior while exporting lob calls

[吴锐扬 <ywwry66@gmail.com>]

The author explained his motivation for the commit in the mailing list before it got applied:

> That's because lob calls get wrapped internally in an anonymous
> emacs-lisp source block that then feeds through the result from the
> actual call as elisp.  The attached patch should suppress the
> confirmation for the wrapper call.  To the best of my knowledge nothing
> dangerous can happen with that evaluation and all confirmations for the
> call stack down from there have already taken place according to the
> users' setup.

If I understand correctly, executing a lob call would trigger two user confirmations in the past, and this commit was meant to suppress one of the two confirmations. (I may be wrong since I am a fairly new user of org mode.) Now there is no confirmation at all. IMHO, there should be exactly one confirmation ideally.

But you are right, I should just copy the author on this.

Thanks,
Ruiyang

> On Oct 28, 2020, at 10:26 AM, Berry, Charles <ccberry@health.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> 
> FWIW, it doesn't seem like an accident. You might ping the author of this commit:
> 
> $ git log -S "(let (org-confirm-babel-evaluate)"
> commit 56bf3d789146fcd3c9f82d875de28c394fe593a0
> Author: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@Stromeko.DE>
> Date:   Wed Apr 10 20:28:31 2013 +0200
> 
>    Babel: avoid superfluous confirmation for internal wrapper
> 
>    * lisp/ob-exp.el (org-babel-exp-results): Suppress user confirmation
>      of the emacs-lisp wrapper execution around a lob call.
> 
>    * lisp/ob-lob.el (org-babel-lob-execute): Suppress user confirmation
>      of the emacs-lisp wrapper execution around a lob call.
> 
> 
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Chuck
> 
>> On Oct 28, 2020, at 4:32 AM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> On Wednesday, 14 Oct 2020 at 16:18, 吴锐扬 wrote:
>>> I have org-confirm-babel-evaluate set to t by default. With this, I
>>> expect to be queried with the execution of every code block or lob
>>> call. However, this does not happen when exporting lob calls (to latex
>>> for example). Here is an example:
>> 
>> Confirmed with fairly recent org from git with
>> org-confirm-babel-evaluate set to t.  Does seem a little strange.  It
>> doesn't bother me much as I don't export org files that I haven't
>> created myself but it does appear to be a hole.
>> 
>> -- 
>> : Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.4-61-ga88806.dirty
>> 
>> 
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