[O] [RFC] removing all results WAS: Re: idempotency ... org-babel-remove-inline-result

[Charles C. Berry]

RFC: the patch to `org-babel-remove-inline-result-one-or-many' 
removes inline results, too.

Do you see any bad consequences?

On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, Daniele Pizzolli wrote:

> Hello Charles,
>
> "Charles C. Berry" writes:
>
> > On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, Daniele Pizzolli wrote:

[discussion of extra whitespace bug deleted]

There is now a bugfix on master. I've also added 'interactive' to 
`org-babel-remove-inline-result'.

> > > Is there a way to evaluate a buffer an then remove inline results or
> > > better, to get the very same buffer after:

Yes.

See attached patch which should clean *all* results (except `raw' results) 
from a buffer when `org-babel-remove-result-one-or-many' is called with a 
prefix.

Before pushing this, I'd like some feedback on the wisdom of doing what 
the patch does.

> > > Wwhy not have also
> > > org-babel-remove-inline-result-one-or-many and
> > > org-babel-remove-all-result-one-or-many to remove all the babel result
> > > with one function call?
> >
> > Easy enough, but is this really needed? What about call block/line
> > results?
>
> This is useful for me because I want to easily discard the results to
> have the commit with only the changes in the source.  I hope others find
> this a reasonable facility.  It is like a 'make clean' for your org
> files.

I think extending `org-babel-remove-all-result-one-or-many' to cover 
inline results is innocuous. So if nobody raises an objection, I will 
push the patch.

I got that you want to clean up your buffer. But an issue with adding 
more functions is 'feature bloat'. If you really need 
`org-babel-remove-result-all' and 
`org-babel-remove-inline-result-one-or-many' you can have private 
functions.

> Patch attached.

Thank you.

Regarding patches, if you haven't signed FSF copyright papers a TINYCHANGE 
is needed in the commit message.

> I am not sure about the default of discarding keyword
> Deleting the result line can cause some disorder, but it is the default
> in org-babel-remove-result.  Also the naming can be confusing.

Alas. Then there is the user error I have made of re-using names.

Best,

Chuck

0002-ob-core.el-org-babel-remove-result-one-or-many-remov.patch
Description: remove inline results also