I have noticed a possible bug in the output of src blocks, especially for emacs-lisp blocks.
This block works fine. #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :results raw '(nil ("a" . "b")) #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: (nil (a . b)) This block however, gives me an error that is due to nil being the first element of the list. #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp '(nil ("a" . "b")) #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: gives this error: org-babel-insert-result: Args out of range: #<killed buffer>, 0, 1 A traceback shows: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (args-out-of-range #<buffer *temp*> 0 1) orgtbl-to-orgtbl((nil ("a" . "b")) (:fmt (lambda (cell) (format "%s" cell)))) org-babel-insert-result((nil ("a" . "b")) ("value" "replace") ("emacs-lisp" "'(nil (\"a\" . \"b\"))" ((:comments . "") (:shebang . "") (:cache . "no") (:padline . "") (:noweb . "no") (:tangle . "no") (:exports . "code") (:results . "replace value") (:session . "none") (:hlines . "yes") (:colnames . "no") (:result-type . value) (:result-params "value" "replace") (:rowname-names) (:colname-names)) "" nil 0 #<marker at 95 in test.org>) nil 0 "emacs-lisp") org-babel-execute-src-block(nil) org-babel-execute-src-block-maybe() org-babel-execute-maybe() org-babel-execute-safely-maybe() run-hook-with-args-until-success(org-babel-execute-safely-maybe) org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c(nil) funcall-interactively(org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c nil) call-interactively(org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c nil nil) command-execute(org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c) Another example that fails: #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :results value '('(nil nil) ("a" . "b")) #+END_SRC orgtbl-format-line: Wrong type argument: listp, "b" But, this works #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :results value '((nil . "c") ("a" . "b")) #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: | (nil . c) | (a . b) | It seems like the issue is that the output does not go into a table too well, and the error is a formatting one. Maybe this error should be caught, and a default of raw should be output when a table cannot be made? right now my workaround is specifying the :results raw when I hit these situations, but it doesn't seem right. -- ----------------------------------- John Kitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu