Jack Kamm <jackkamm@gmail.com> writes:

> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> The patch generally looks reasonable, although I am slightly concerned
>> about interaction between :dir and session we describe in the manual:
>>
>>     When ‘dir’ is used with ‘session’, Org sets the starting directory
>>     for a new session.  But Org does not alter the directory of an already
>>     existing session.
>
> I agree it's a problem -- if there are multiple blocks with the same
> session but different ":dir" arguments, then a ":file" result of the
> second block will be relative to the wrong :dir.
>
> This seems like a longstanding problem, and affects both async and
> non-async session blocks.

Maybe something like the attached?


> Ideally, ":dir" should be set at session level rather than block
> level. This could be done via PROPERTY if there is only one session in
> the file or subtree, but there isn't a mechanism for this more
> generally.

Or we can ask babel backends to respect :dir and issue the necessary
"cd" command in the session for the duration of the code block evaluation.

> Perhaps the simplest solution is to add a check to org-lint, requiring
> all blocks with the same session to have the same :dir.

Or this.