Re: [O] ":results none" doesn't seem to be documented

[Rainer M Krug]

Fabrice Niessen <fni-news-TA4HMoP+1wHrZ44/address@hidden>
writes:

> Hello,
>
> Andreas Leha wrote:
>> Kodi Arfer <address@hidden> writes:
>>> "none" is allowed as an argument to :results (see, for example,
>>> ob-core.el line 704 as of Git d36bd8d), but this isn't mentioned in
>>> results.html. I just learned of its existence while reading
>>> ob-core.el.
>>>
>>> To me, by the way, ":results none" seems like a useful feature rather
>>> than being redundant with ":results silent", because it won't attempt
>>> to print a massive object to the echo area. (Pehaps "silent" wasn't a
>>> great choice of name.)
>>
>> Especially given that ":results none" prints "results silenced" in the
>> echo area.  Should rather be "results nonced" ;-)
>
> They're not the same...
>
> Extract from my modest (and still "work in progress") Org-Babel
> refcard [1]:

Looks very useful - I will see if I have something to contribute.

Cheers,

Rainer

>
> - :results silent ::
>      Sends the commands, echoes the results in the minibuffer (to see
>      code block output), but *does not change the Org mode buffer* (even
>      during export, *no results are inserted* into the exported
>      document).
>      (default for Org and Screen code blocks)
>
> - :results none ::
>      Silents the results, even for the minibuffer.  By definition, such
>      a code block is run for its side effects.
>
> Best regards,
> Fabrice
>
> [1] https://github.com/fniessen/refcard-org-babel

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