Re: where to place caption so babel results include caption?

[Berry, Charles]

> On Nov 6, 2019, at 1:55 AM, Ken Mankoff <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> If I have a babel block that generates a table and I'd like latex attributes 
> associated with that table, it seems to work well if I do this:
> 
> #+NAME: foo
> #+BEGIN_SRC bash :results table
> echo "${RANDOM}|${RANDOM}|"
> echo "${RANDOM}|${RANDOM}|"
> #+END_SRC
> 
> #+caption: foo
> #+latex_attr: :placement [!h]
> #+RESULTS: foo
> | 17326 | 29919 |
> | 30565 |  9548 |
> 
> 
> And I can re-run the babel block and CAPTION and ATTR_LATEX remain.
> 
> But if I want to clean with =[C-u] C-c C-v k= or 
> (org-babel-remove-result-one-or-many) and regenerate =C-c C-v C-b= or 
> (org-babel-execute-buffer), then this happens:
> 
> 
> #+RESULTS: foo
> | 17225 | 29253 |
> | 18433 | 27388 |
> 
> #+caption: foo
> #+latex_attr: :placement [!h]
> 
> If I place CAPTION and LATEX_ATTR above the babel block it isn't exported 
> correctly. Is there some way to have this work?
> 


Maybe use something like

M-: (org-babel-map-src-blocks nil (org-babel-insert-result "" '("replace"))) RET

to scrub the existing result values without removing the '#+RESULTS' line.

??

HTH,

Chuck