Gary Oberbrunner <ga...@oberbrunner.com> writes: > Aha -- you have to use the :var syntax on the begin_src line, not the > params-in-parens syntax on the name line. Your version works: > > #+name: example-block > #+begin_src sh :var input="" > echo "input is $input" > #+end_src > > but this doesn't: > > #+name: example-block(input="") > #+begin_src sh > echo "input is $input" > #+end_src > > The doc seems to say it should work the same, in > http://orgmode.org/manual/var.html (see "Alternate Argument Syntax"). >
At this point I'm not sure if the documentation or the code should be amended. I've personally never liked the args-in-block-name syntax, but I don't recall if we formally decided to abandon it, or if it has simply been broken in a recent commit. -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte
