Can you do something like:
#+BEGIN_SRC some-lang :results output org drawer :file (make-temp-file "prefix-") .... #+END_SRC John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 9:15 AM, Karl Voit <devn...@karl-voit.at> wrote: > Hi, I sometimes wonder if there is something like mktemp[1] in > org-mode as, e.g., a built-in macro. > > For example, PlantUML in orgmode[2] requires a file header argument to > write the image output to: ":file myoutput.svg" > > In most cases, I really don't care about the output file and its > location. I just want to see it in my org-mode buffer and in various > output formats like PDF or HTML. > > When I don't want to trash my org folder, I have to use ":file > /tmp/tmp.svg". The downside of it is, that this only works for > non-Windows systems because there is no "/tmp" on Windows. > > Therefore, it would be cool to have something like {{{tmpfile}}} that > I could use in :file {{{tmpfile}}} > > However, there is still an issue with this approach: what if I need > multiple separate {{{tmpfile}}} for, e.g., multiple PlantUML blocks > that are within the same heading and therefore get exported at once? > > And: as a consequence, it would require {{{tmpdir}}} as well. > > [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/mktemp.html > [2] http://plantuml.com/emacs > > -- > get mail|git|SVN|photos|postings|SMS|phonecalls|RSS|CSV|XML into Org-mode: > > get Memacs from https://github.com/novoid/Memacs < > Personal Information Management > http://Karl-Voit.at/tags/pim/ > Emacs-related > http://Karl-Voit.at/tags/emacs/ > > >
