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Subject: Re: suggestion/feature-request for dynamic blocks
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To: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
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  On 9/21/2010 11:41 AM, Eric Schulte wrote:
> Tables created by named code block are already prefixed with a
> #+results: source-name line.  This allows them to be referenced by other
> code blocks.  Is there some property of #+tblname: lines which is not
> shared by #+results: lines which would make #+tblname: lines preferable?
Sorry for the terminology confusion. I was referring to the dynamic code 
block features of org-mode such as org-dblock-write:columnview or 
org-update-dblock. Such functions take a pair of lines like

#+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id local :maxlevel 4
#+END:

and fill them in with information automatically extracted from the 
org-mode file.

I would like to be able to specify something like

#+BEGIN: columnview :hlines 1 :id local :maxlevel 4 :dtname
#+END:

and have a #+TBLNAME get inserted in automatically so that I can then 
use org-babel to further process the results.

I think things like this would be useful for all the various kinds of 
org-dblock-write: functions and so suggested a generic library for 
writers of org-dblock-write: functions to handle things like this.

Thanks,
-I.S.