Matthew Snyder <matthew.c.sny...@gmail.com> writes: > Hello - > > I noticed today as I was playing with code blocks that some results > are prematurely truncated, possibly because they contain nil as a > first element and are thus considered empty return values. > > Consider: > > > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp > '(a nil nil b) > #+END_SRC > > #+results: > | a | nil | nil | b | > > But then: > > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp > '(nil nil nil b) > #+END_SRC > > #+results: > > I'm using Emacs 24.0.50.1 and Org Mode 7.6, ELPA version 20110728. >
Interesting corner case. If you place a ":results scalar" header argument onto the code block, then you get reasonable results #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results scalar '(nil nil nil nil) #+end_src #+results: : (nil nil nil nil) However when the results are converted into a table, the `orgtbl-to-orgtbl' which ultimately calls the `orgtbl-to-generic' function turns '(nil nil nil nil) into "". This may be something to look at in the future, but for now I'm hesitant to touch such a central function. Cheers -- Eric > > -- > Matthew Snyder -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
