Re: [O] Error with :wrap org in babel and 8.0-pre

[Eric Schulte]

Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> writes:

> John Hendy <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> John Hendy <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> #+RESULTS:
>>>> #+BEGIN_org
>>>> With the assumption of 100 lbs. of input material 1 and 200 lbs. of 
>>>> material 2,
>>>> we can produce the following number of widgets based on injection mold
>>>> wall thicknesses.
>>>> | wall  | vals | widgets  |
>>>> |-------+------+----------|
>>>> | 5 mil | 0.01 | 40000.00 |
>>>> | 6 mil | 0.01 | 33333.00 |
>>>> | 8 mil | 0.01 | 25000.00 |
>>>> #+END_org
>>>
>>> This is wrong. We discussed it months ago on this ML and, IIRC, Babel
>>> should produce "#+begin_src org" blocks, not "#+begin_org". Org
>>> documentation specifies it too.
>>>
>>
>> "Wrong," as in =:wrap org= behavior is currently a bug? Or "wrong" in
>> that for my given use case, I shouldn't be using =:wrap org=?
>
> Wrong as is "the current behaviour is a bug". It is expected to produce
> "#+begin_src org" blocks. Its use case is to generate dead data:
>

I disagree, the current behavior is *not* a bug.  From the manual.

,----
| 14.8.2.23 ':wrap'
| .................
| 
| The ':wrap' header argument is used to mark the results of source block
| evaluation.  The header argument can be passed a string that will be
| appended to '#+BEGIN_' and '#+END_', which will then be used to wrap the
| results.  If not string is specified then the results will be wrapped in
| a '#+BEGIN/END_RESULTS' block.
`----

I think you're confusing ":results org" with ":wrap org".

That said, I don't think there is ever a case when you would want to use
":wrap org".  The solution to the original question is to use ":results
drawer".

Best,

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Eric Schulte
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