Re: [Orgmode] org-babel feature request

[Maurizio Vitale]

>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Davison <address@hidden> writes:

    Dan> Maurizio Vitale
    Dan> <address@hidden>
    Dan> writes:

    Dan> [...]

    >> It would be nice if it was possible to have multiple result
    >> sections. This way I could embed in the document the result that
    >> was obtained when writing the documentation, while still allowing
    >> the person following the recipe to evaluate again the shell
    >> script and get the results on his machine.
    >> 
    >> The first section should be read-only (not necessarily physically
    >> read-only, but skipped by C-c C-c). The others may be
    >> re-evaluated over and over until the end user has a valid
    >> configuration.

    Dan> Hi Maurizio,

    Dan> Once I've obtained the results that I want to "freeze", I would
    Dan> manually alter (or even delete) the #+resname tag, so that the
    Dan> source block no longer overwrites it. Is that simple solution
    Dan> appropriate? I'm not yet seeing the advantage of the more
    Dan> complex possibilities.

That is the obvious possibility, but at times you may want to
re-evaluate those: either the configuration has changed, or the software
you're documenting has changed or the script you're using is buggy.

Yes you could reintroduce the #+resname tag when needed, but I'm hoping
to get more automation than M-x shell-command-on-region.

I've just started using org-babel in this way, so I'm not sure at all of
what features I'll feel in the end needed. This seems one right now.

Best regards,

     Maurizio

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