Bug: org-babel-ref-resolve does not find refs in a COMMENT'ed section [9.3.7 (9.3.7-elpaplus @ /home/kdm/.emacs.d/DEBUG/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20200602/)]

[Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I think this is a recent change in behavior. I can no longer eval Babel blocks that expect table inputs via :var when they are in a section with a COMMENT status.



Here is an MWE org file:

=== BEGIN ===

* COMMENT Tables not found when section is commented

#+NAME: table
| foo |

(org-babel-ref-resolve "table")

=== END ===




When I try to eval (org-babel-ref-resolve "table"), Org reports:

org-babel-ref-resolve: Reference ‘table’ not found in this buffer

If I remove the "COMMENT" state on the heading, then the table is found.

I do not recall this happening in earlier versions of Org, but does now with the latest version from melpa.





Tested with /usr/bin/emacs -Q -l ~/.emacs.d/DEBUG.el ~/.emacs.d/DEBUG.org with DEBUG.org above and DEBUG.el containing:


(setq package-user-dir (expand-file-name "elpa" "~/.emacs.d/DEBUG"))
(require 'package)
(setq package-enable-at-startup nil)
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/") t)
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("org" . "http://orgmode.org/elpa/") t)
(package-initialize)
(unless (package-installed-p 'use-package)
  (package-refresh-contents)
  (package-install 'use-package))
(setq package-enable-at-startup nil)
(defvar use-package-verbose t)
(require 'use-package)
(setq use-package-always-ensure t)

(use-package org
  :ensure org-plus-contrib
  :config
  (setq org-confirm-babel-evaluate nil)
  (org-babel-do-load-languages
   'org-babel-load-languages
   '((shell . t))))


  -k.