try: #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :results output (print-elements-of-list animals) #+END_SRC
the default results are value, and your function does not return anything I think. It prints them to output. Lawrence Bottorff writes: > If I do this: > > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp > (setq animals '(gazelle giraffe lion tiger)) > #+END_SRC > > #+RESULTS: > | gazelle | giraffe | lion | tiger | > > and then this > > #+begin_src emacs-lisp > (defun print-elements-of-list (list) > "Print each element of LIST on a line of its own." > (while list > (print (car list)) > (setq list (cdr list)))) > #+end_src > > #+RESULTS: > : print-elements-of-list > > and finally > > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp > (print-elements-of-list animals) > #+END_SRC > > I get nothing for results and "Code block produced no output." in Messages. > Why can't it print out? Same code works fine in the IELM buffer. > > LB -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu