Rick Frankel <r...@rickster.com> writes:

> Nicolas-
>
> On 2013-06-26 11:13, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
>>
>> Rick Frankel <r...@rickster.com> writes:
>>
>> At the time (late 2012) I found Nicolases changes (named results
>> blocks, attributes and captions on the results block and not the
>> source, etc) confusing. I still find it odd that you need to evaluate
>> a source block before you can e.g, add a caption or attributes to the
>> results (previous behavior was that header arguments on the source
>> block were used for the results in exporting.)
>>
>> But you couldn't provide different captions (or attributes) to source
>> code and results (or no caption/attribute to one of them only).
>>
>> If you think about it, it's not very odd that captions and attributes
>> apply to the text located just below, instead of some remote or yet to
>> be generated piece of text.
>>
>
> I agree now (as i did then), with the functionality and understand why
> and how it works, but i still find having to execute a source block
> before being able to attribute the results counter-intuitive (as have
> others).

You are free to type a #+RESULTS: line manually.

If you use yasnippets you could define a snippet for a named code block
which inserts the #+RESULTS line concurrently with the code block.

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte

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