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Re: [O] [babel] Specified colnames


From: Eric Schulte
Subject: Re: [O] [babel] Specified colnames
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:47:04 -0600
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

>
> OK. That's true I've set:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>   ;; keep lower-case
>   (setq org-babel-results-keyword "results")
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>

If you like you could let-bind this around any future tests.

>
> since we've got nice keyword fontification -- as Carsten once said, he only
> choose uppercase keywords, a while ago, when it was much more difficult to
> clearly view the distinction between text, code and results (before the nice
> fontification we now have). Otherwise, he'd have chosen lower-case keywords.
>
> Because of that feature, which I completely had out of my mind, I'm thinking
> at another thing that could help reduce the size of the tests. Currently, we
> copy once the code block, and once the code block + its results.
>
> Maybe we could have a function to locate (via a regexp for
> #+results/#+RESULTS) the results, and only check (for strict or loose
> equality [1]) on the results.
>
> So, something along those lines:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (should
>  (equal (results-part (org-babel-execute-src-block "code block only"))
>         "results only"))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> No duplication of the input...
>
> Does this make sense?
>

Yes, that would be an improvement, see the other tests in that file for
examples of similar functionality.

>
>> In the future more flexible tests (such as regular expression searches)
>> rather than strict equality should be preferable.
>>
>> Thanks for contributing this test!
>
> My pleasure.
>
> Best regards,
>   Seb
>

Cheers,

>
> [1] Regexp match

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte



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