Evaluate, execute, oh my!

[Rudolf Adamkovič]

>From the "Headings and Headlines" thread:

> P.S. We should also harmonize `evaluate' and `execute'; I can never
> tell which one to look for when completing.

Based on my experience, normally, we "evaluate" expressions for their
results and we "execute" statements for their effects.  That said, in
Emacs Lisp, one "evaluates" a buffer, even if for side effects.

Below, I include the completions I see in my Emacs.

Functions "org" + "eval":

- ob-session-async-org-babel-R-evaluate-session
- org-agenda-skip-eval
- org-babel-R-evaluate
- org-babel-R-evaluate-external-process
- org-babel-R-evaluate-session
- org-babel-check-confirm-evaluate
- org-babel-check-evaluate
- org-babel-comint-async-delete-dangling-and-eval
- org-babel-comint-eval-invisibly-and-wait-for-file
- org-babel-confirm-evaluate
- org-babel-eval
- org-babel-eval-error-notify
- org-babel-eval-headers
- org-babel-eval-read-file
- org-babel-eval-wipe-error-buffer
- org-babel-groovy-evaluate
- org-babel-java--expand-for-evaluation
- org-babel-java-evaluate
- org-babel-julia-evaluate
- org-babel-julia-evaluate-external-process
- org-babel-julia-evaluate-session
- org-babel-lua-evaluate
- org-babel-lua-evaluate-external-process
- org-babel-lua-evaluate-session
- org-babel-octave-evaluate
- org-babel-octave-evaluate-external-process
- org-babel-octave-evaluate-session
- org-babel-perl-evaluate
- org-babel-python-async-evaluate-session
- org-babel-python-evaluate
- org-babel-python-evaluate-external-process
- org-babel-python-evaluate-session
- org-babel-ruby-evaluate
- org-babel-sh-evaluate
- org-eval
- org-eval-in-calendar
- org-eval-in-environment
- org-evaluate-time-range
- org-list--generic-eval
- org-table-eval-formula
- org-table-maybe-eval-formula

Variables "org" + "eval":

- org-babel-lisp-eval-fn
- org-babel-no-eval-on-ctrl-c-ctrl-c
- org-confirm-babel-evaluate
- org-export-babel-evaluate
- org-table-formula-evaluate-inline

Functions "org" + "exec":

- org-agenda-execute
- org-agenda-execute-calendar-command
- org-babel-C-execute
- org-babel-execute-buffer
- org-babel-execute-maybe
- org-babel-execute-safely-maybe
- org-babel-execute-src-block
- org-babel-execute-src-block-maybe
- org-babel-execute-subtree
- org-babel-execute:C
- org-babel-execute:C++
- org-babel-execute:D
- org-babel-execute:R
- org-babel-execute:ash
- org-babel-execute:awk
- org-babel-execute:bash
- org-babel-execute:calc
- org-babel-execute:clojure
- org-babel-execute:clojurescript
- org-babel-execute:cpp
- org-babel-execute:csh
- org-babel-execute:css
- org-babel-execute:dash
- org-babel-execute:ditaa
- org-babel-execute:dot
- org-babel-execute:elisp
- org-babel-execute:emacs-lisp
- org-babel-execute:eshell
- org-babel-execute:fish
- org-babel-execute:forth
- org-babel-execute:fortran
- org-babel-execute:gnuplot
- org-babel-execute:groovy
- org-babel-execute:haskell
- org-babel-execute:java
- org-babel-execute:js
- org-babel-execute:julia
- org-babel-execute:ksh
- org-babel-execute:latex
- org-babel-execute:lilypond
- org-babel-execute:lisp
- org-babel-execute:lua
- org-babel-execute:makefile
- org-babel-execute:matlab
- org-babel-execute:maxima
- org-babel-execute:mksh
- org-babel-execute:ocaml
- org-babel-execute:octave
- org-babel-execute:org
- org-babel-execute:perl
- org-babel-execute:plantuml
- org-babel-execute:posh
- org-babel-execute:processing
- org-babel-execute:python
- org-babel-execute:ruby
- org-babel-execute:sass
- org-babel-execute:scheme
- org-babel-execute:screen
- org-babel-execute:sed
- org-babel-execute:sh
- org-babel-execute:shell
- org-babel-execute:sql
- org-babel-execute:sqlite
- org-babel-execute:zsh
- org-babel-forth-session-execute
- org-babel-haskell-execute
- org-babel-lilypond-execute-tangled-ly
- org-babel-lob-execute-maybe
- org-babel-map-executables
- org-babel-scheme-execute-with-geiser
- org-babel-screen-session-execute-string
- org-execute-file-search-in-bibtex

Variables "org" + "exec":

- org-babel-after-execute-hook
- org-babel-python--exec-tmpfile
- org-execute-file-search-functions
- org-plantuml-exec-mode
- org-plantuml-executable-args
- org-plantuml-executable-path

Rudy
-- 
"Mathematics takes us still further from what is human into the region
of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but every
possible world, must conform."
-- Bertrand Russell, 1902

Rudolf Adamkovič <salutis@me.com> [he/him]
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