Aloha Nicolas,

Nicolas Goaziou writes:

> Hello,
>
> "Charles C. Berry" <ccbe...@ucsd.edu> writes:
>
>> On Sat, 23 Jul 2016, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
>
>>> OTOH, inheriting :exports property may not be optimal. In particular,
>>> ":exports code" for a Babel call is probably nonsensical. Perhaps
>>> a solution would be to keep the current behaviour and make an exception
>>> for :exports, which would always be `results' for Babel calls.
>>>
>>> WDYT?
>>
>> I think that would work well enough.
>
> Funnily, that's what the previous evaluation process did.
>
> I was confused by the "default" part in
> `org-babel-default-lob-header-args'. I realize that this variable is no
> replacement for `org-babel-default-header-args'. It permits to override
> headers inherited from the source block instead.
>
> This is now fixed. I updated variable docstring accordingly.
>
>> Although I might quibble about what 'local' means here. If the src
>> block is under a headline called XYZ with a `header-args' property of
>> `:eval no' and the babel call is under headline ABC with no
>> header-args property, I think some would expect the default to take
>> precedence for calls under ABC over the property in XYZ.
>
> The point is that a Babel call without any header argument or node
> property defined at point of call should behave exactly as the src block
> being called (minus the :exports behaviour, per above).
>
> It seems logical to me that a source block that cannot be evaled cannot
> be, by default, called either.
>
> You may want to add (:eval . "yes") to
> `org-babel-default-lob-header-args' if you disagree.

Perhaps this should be added to the default value of
org-babel-default-lob-header-args for the sake of legacy code?

All the best,
Tom

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