Hi Charles, everybody, >> I am running a babel script that generates, as one of its line * in the >> front: >> >> #+BEGIN_SRC sh >> echo "* Hello" >> #+END_SRC >> >> #+RESULTS: >> #+begin_example >> * Hello >> #+end_example >> >> In that case, should babel be the one escaping the * in the RESULTS block?
Charles> Is that *really* what it did? Charles> When I run your example, I get: Charles> #+RESULTS: Charles> : * Hello Charles> and this exports (with the `:exports results' header) to html wrapped in a <pre class="example"> container: Charles> <pre class="example"> Charles> * Hello Charles> </pre> Charles> using Org 9.0.5. Charles> Without that header the src code gets wrapped in a <pre> container. Charles> So there must be something in/about your setup you haven't mentioned. Charles> HTH, Charles> Chuck I looked a bit into my configuration. In my configuration, I set the value of org-babel-min-lines-for-block-output to 0. The default value of this variable is by default 10. When the number of lines in the output is larger than it, it uses EXAMPLE blocks rather than the escaped ones. So the original issue (* not being escaped) will nonetheless appear when the threshold is passed: Here is an example (I run it with emacs -nw -q, using emacs25) org version 8.2.10 (this works also in my configuration under 9.0.2) #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :results output (dotimes (i 2) (print '*hello)) #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: : : *hello : : *hello #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :results output (dotimes (i 10) (print '*hello)) #+END_SRC #+RESULTS: #+begin_example *hello *hello *hello *hello *hello #+end_example thank you all again, -- Daniel M. German "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions William Gibson -> of legitimate operators in every nation" http://turingmachine.org/ http://silvernegative.com/ dmg (at) uvic (dot) ca replace (at) with @ and (dot) with .