Re: Library of Babel confusion

["Berry, Charles" <ccberry@ucsd.edu>]

> On Apr 3, 2018, at 1:31 PM, Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've been trying to grok LOB again. So I've cloned the worg git and library-of-babel.el is one of the files. org-babel-lob-injest didn't work,


Try 

M-x org-babel-lob-ingest RET org/worg/library-of-babel.org RET

Don't be a jester, be an ingester. ;-)


> so I customized org-babel-lob-files and inserted .../worg/library-of-babel.el . . . and it did in fact get added to my init.el under the custom-set-variables:
> 
>  '(org-babel-lob-files (quote ("~/org/worg/library-of-babel.org")))
> 
> I checked org-babel-library-of-babel variable, and the new things seemed to be there, although it's rather mind-bending to know I will be calling LOB code that is internally stored inside of an association list.
> 
> Now, in my org file I put this:
> 
> #+lob: write(file="jsontest")


See (info"(org) Evaluating code blocks")

The proper idiom is

	#+call: write(file="jsontest")

Of course, there needs to be a proper 'write' src block in the file you ingested, etc.

> 
> and try C-c C-c on it. Nothing. My minibuffer says "local setup has been refreshed". How does one use, call a LOB function? Also, while I'm demonstrating my rank noobian-ness, I try this:
> 
> #+name: myelsquare
> #+header: :var x=0
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (* x x)
> #+end_src
> 
> #+call: myelsquare(x=6)
> 
> #+RESULTS:
> : 36
> 
> but this results in
> 
> #+name: myelsquare
> #+header: :var x=0
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (defun myelsquare (x)
>       (* x x))
> #+end_src
> 
> #+call: myelsquare(x=6)
> 
> #+RESULTS:
> : myelsquare2


Is this *verbatim* ? Did you cut and paste everything (including the trailing `2') all at once? If so, I do not get it.

I would have expected

#+RESULTS:
: myelsquare

 which is the correct behavior.

To see why put point in the myelsquare src block and type C-c C-v v

then move point to the end of the 'preview' buffer and type C-x C-e.

Look at the value echo-ed in the minibuffer.

If it still isn't clear maybe `M-x (symbol-function 'myelsquare)' will help. 

HTH,

Chuck