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

[Ilya Konovalov]

I assumed that https://org-babel.readthedocs.io/ is at least somewhat
related to org documentation. Looks like I was wrong.

The :separator parameter seems to be related to how block's :var
arguments are formatted when passing to the shell script.

In most cases separator is not passed to
`org-babel-import-elisp-from-file' -- looks like only some languages set
it to some fixed value.

Matt <matt@excalamus.com> writes:

>  ---- 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?