Re: Generating the filename from name and file-ext for blocks with side-effects

[Ihor Radchenko]

Rudolf Adamkovič <rudolf@adamkovic.org> writes:

>> The aim is to not need to define a filename for each image, to minimise 
>> the boilerplate.
>
> +1 This should be built into Org and enabled by default.
>
> I currently generate image names with a custom snippet, but it gets
> trying and should not be necessary in the first place.

Do you want to create a patch providing this functionality?

> Instead, Org should generate a unique file name automatically, similar
> to how tangle ':comments' work, and use that as the default value for
> the ':file` argument, getting rid of the dreaded error message
>
>   org-babel-execute:LANG: You need to specify a :file parameter

Do you want to extend `org-babel-generate-file-param' to return
something even when src block is not named and :file-ext is not given?
But how will you know the desired extension?

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