Try this:
#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
(defadvice org-babel-execute-src-block (around progress nil activate)
"create a buffer indicating what is running"
(let ((code-block (org-element-property :name (org-element-at-point)))
(cb (current-buffer)))
(split-window-below)
(other-window 1)
(switch-to-buffer "*My Babel*")
(insert (format "Running %s" code-block))
(other-window 1)
ad-do-it
(kill-buffer "*My Babel*")
(delete-other-windows)))
#+END_SRC
It will mess with your windows a bit, but it does what you want I think.
Gary Oberbrunner <ga...@oberbrunner.com> writes:
> I have an org-mode babel program/document that takes about half an
> hour to run (end result is a LaTeX or HTML doc with figures). It's a
> mix of SQL and python. (The SQL is the slow part.) I'd really like it
> if org-mode could tell me, while it's running, which named block it's
> processing. Is there anything like that available? An option perhaps?
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