>> perhaps the data could be printed as an Org-mode table, and then the >> "output raw" :results combination could be used, or the output could >> be sent through another code block to convert the string to a table. > > That's what I do at the moment, actually. > > Mind you, org is able to take the output and convert it to a table > easily enough with =C-c |= (org-table-create-or-convert-from-region) > operating on the output if selected as a region. Would it be possible > to post-process the output from babel automatically using this method > (maybe with a hook?) with the output selected if ":results output > table", say, were specified? That alone would be sufficient for 90% of > the cases... >
Ah, that sounds like a much more satisfying and general solution than the previous approach of parsing output in language-specific manners. Although I don't have time at the moment, I will put automatic conversion of org type results onto my todo list, so that at some point in the future, code like the following will be possible... #+source: org-results #+begin_src sh :results output org echo "| 1 |" echo "| 2 |" #+end_src #+begin_src emacs-lisp :var in=org-results (listp in) #+end_src #+results: : t > > Apologies for the sporadic nature of my responses lately: I have been on > holiday (much needed!) and purposely without email most of the time! > No need to apologize! I try to do the same when on vacation. Best -- Eric > > Thanks, > eric -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
