Re: [BUG] ":sep" header argument doesn't work in ob-shell [9.6.21 ( @ /home/aragaer/.config/emacs/elpa/org-9.6.21/)]

[Matt]

 ---- On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 10:27:46 +0100  Ilya Konovalov  wrote --- 
 > 
 > After some usage I found that this exact patch breaks
 > `org-babel-import-elisp-from-file's own separator detection. It looks
 > like it's better to leave it as `nil' unless specified.
 
Thanks for taking the time to look into it.  According to my notes, :sep and 
:separator don't work for anything beyond basic table layout.  I'm not familiar 
with org-table and there isn't much documentation on those keywords in the 
manual.  The :sep keyword shows up for Texinfo and LaTeX.   It looks like :sep 
is used for export?  It's not clear to me how they're supposed to work with 
shell block output, or if that was even a consideration at all.

They were added in 
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=a60a83fbb65a368bb96ea6aaf1db20706b3e99c5
 claiming "better handling of table in shell scripts"  So, it looks like their 
inclusion was intentional.

Maybe someone has deeper insights?

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Matt Trzcinski
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