Re: [O] ob-rec.el

[Charles Millar]

On 05/15/2015 11:07 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:
> Charles Millar <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > It appears that ob-rec.el is in org-mode - somewhere - because when I
> > evaluate
> >
> > #+begin_src rec :data Testrec2.rec
> >
> > #+end_src
> >
> >
> > the output in the is
> >
> > no org-babel execute function for rec
> >
> > However once I add (rec . t) to my org-babel-load-languages and restart
> > emacs and then evaluate the block, etc.
> >
> > #+begin_src rec :data Testrec2.rec
> >
> > #+end_src
> >
> > #+RESULTS:
> > | %Bar        | %Baz        |
> > |--------------+---    --------|
> > | entrybar1 | entrybaz1 |
> > | entrybar2 | entrybaz2 |
> >
> > So first question - where is ob-rec.el in org-mode?
> M-x locate-library RET ob-rec RET
>
> In my case, ob-rec was not present (but see below).
>
>
> > Second - should rec-utils be added as a supported language or should
> > some reference be made so that users know to add (rec . t) to their
> > org-babel-load-languages, if so desired?
> I downloaded recutils-1.7.tar.gz from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/recutils/
> and, after unpacking it, found rec-mode.el and ob-rec.el in the etc/
> subdirectory of the unpacked tarball.

Thanks Nick. For me it ob-rec.el is hiding in plain sight - it is in my 
emacs/site-lisp directory by itself since I unpacked the tarball in that 
directory.Per your instruction, I used M-x locate-library and there it 
was and is.

> Maybe you can add a pointer to where to get it (and a few words about
> what it does) to
>
>     http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages.html
>
> on Worg. N.B. the language should be "rec", not "rec-utils".
I would like to give it a shot however I believe that Jose Marchesi the 
person for this.

Charlie