Re: [O] feature request: re-compute cache without evaluation

[Eric Schulte]

Henning Redestig <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I write many source blocks that take a fairly long time to execute
> (several minutes). Sometimes I find myself wanting to do cosmetic
> changes to the code, that I know (for sure) do not change the output,
> after the first evaluation. Unfortunately, after having made these
> changes the cache obviously does not match the code anymore and I have
> to re-evaluate to update the cache. I know it goes against the strict
> 'reproducible research' idea but still I would like to be able to
> re-compute the cache without actually evaluating the block as it is
> not efficient to re-evaluate for the sole purpose of updating the
> cache.
>
> What do you think?

Press C-c C-v a (org-babel-sha1-hash) in the code block, then manually
replace the original hash with the hash returned by that function.

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