Hi Ihor,
I've implemented this proposal in the patch attached.
Does it look good to you ?
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Sébastien MiquelFrom b1b783dc80821b07937ac4211ec28df8726fff1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?S=C3=A9bastien=20Miquel?=
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 20:49:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] New babel syntax to pass src block contents as argument
* lisp/ob-ref.el (org-babel-ref-resolve): Add support for
`named-block[]' syntax, resolving to the contents of a named-block.
* lisp/ob-core.el (org-babel-read-element): Read a code block into its
contents, like other blocks.
* testing/listp/test-ob.el (test-ob/block-content-resolution): Test
block content resolution.
* doc/org-manual.org: Document syntax.
* etc/ORG-NEWS: Document syntax.
---
doc/org-manual.org | 7 ---
etc/ORG-NEWS| 5 +
lisp/ob-core.el | 2 +-
lisp/ob-ref.el | 10 ++
testing/lisp/test-ob.el | 15 +++
5 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/org-manual.org b/doc/org-manual.org
index 57a57a6fe..794682b49 100644
--- a/doc/org-manual.org
+++ b/doc/org-manual.org
@@ -17505,9 +17505,10 @@ a colon, for example: =:var table=other-file.org:example-table=.
: 4
#+end_example
-- literal example ::
+- literal example, or code block contents ::
- A literal example block named with a =NAME= keyword.
+ A code block or literal example block named with a =NAME= keyword,
+ followed by brackets (optional for example blocks).
#+begin_example
,#+NAME: literal-example
@@ -17517,7 +17518,7 @@ a colon, for example: =:var table=other-file.org:example-table=.
,#+END_EXAMPLE
,#+NAME: read-literal-example
- ,#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var x=literal-example
+ ,#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :var x=literal-example[]
(concatenate #'string x " for you.")
,#+END_SRC
diff --git a/etc/ORG-NEWS b/etc/ORG-NEWS
index 7dae03dc6..d6d99a64b 100644
--- a/etc/ORG-NEWS
+++ b/etc/ORG-NEWS
@@ -288,6 +288,11 @@ The =org-md-toplevel-hlevel= customization variable sets the heading
level used for top level headings, much like how
=org-html-toplevel-hlevel= sets the heading level used for top level
headings in HTML export.
+*** Babel: new syntax to pass the contents of a src block as argument
+
+Use the header argument =:var x=code-block[]= or
+: #+CALL: fn(x=code-block[])
+to pass the contents of a named code block as a string argument.
** New options
*** A new custom setting =org-hide-drawer-startup= to control initial folding state of drawers
diff --git a/lisp/ob-core.el b/lisp/ob-core.el
index 68dd5557c..c52ef9ed6 100644
--- a/lisp/ob-core.el
+++ b/lisp/ob-core.el
@@ -2156,7 +2156,7 @@ Return nil if ELEMENT cannot be read."
(or (org-babel--string-to-number v) v)))
(`table (org-babel-read-table))
(`plain-list (org-babel-read-list))
- (`example-block
+ ((or `example-block `src-block)
(let ((v (org-element-property :value element)))
(if (or org-src-preserve-indentation
(org-element-property :preserve-indent element))
diff --git a/lisp/ob-ref.el b/lisp/ob-ref.el
index 87a7ccf63..ee2745e09 100644
--- a/lisp/ob-ref.el
+++ b/lisp/ob-ref.el
@@ -124,12 +124,14 @@ Emacs Lisp representation of the value of the variable."
(save-excursion
(let ((case-fold-search t)
args new-refere new-header-args new-referent split-file split-ref
- index)
+ index contents)
;; if ref is indexed grab the indices -- beware nested indices
- (when (and (string-match "\\[\\([^\\[]+\\)\\]$" ref)
+ (when (and (string-match "\\[\\([^\\[]*\\)\\]$" ref)
(let ((str (substring ref 0 (match-beginning 0
(= (cl-count ?\( str) (cl-count ?\) str
- (setq index (match-string 1 ref))
+(if (> (length (match-string 1 ref)) 0)
+ (setq index (match-string 1 ref))
+ (setq contents t))
(setq ref (substring ref 0 (match-beginning 0
;; assign any arguments to pass to source block
(when (string-match
@@ -171,7 +173,7 @@ Emacs Lisp representation of the value of the variable."
(throw :found
(org-babel-execute-src-block
nil (org-babel-lob-get-info e) params)))
- (`src-block
+ ((and `src-block (guard (not contents)))
(throw :found
(org-babel-execute-src-block
nil nil
diff --git a/testing/lisp/test-ob.el b/testing/lisp/test-ob.el
index a62bd56bf..c944ccd39 100644
--- a/testing/lisp/test-ob.el
+++ b/testing/lisp/test-ob.el
@@ -178,6 +178,21 @@ should still return the link."
(point-at-bol)
(point-at-eol))
+(ert-deftest test-ob/block-content-resolution ()
+ "Test block content resolution."
+ (org-test-with-temp-text-in-file "
+
+#+name: four
+#+begin_src emacs-lisp
+ (list 1 2 3 4)
+#+end_src
+
+#+begin_src emacs-lisp :var four=four[]
+ (length (eval (car (read-from-string four
+#+end_src"
+ (org-babel-next-src-block 2)
+ (should (=
