Following this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/77572/focus=77648
I found that setting org-confirm-babel-evaluate to a lambda form BREAKS inline src blocks. Here is an ECM: # ==== #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (setf org-confirm-babel-evaluate (lambda (&rest args) (message "info: %S" (org-babel-get-src-block-info 'light)) nil)) #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: src_R{1+1} # ====