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29.0.50; Make org-babel-execute-buffer ignore irrelevant src blocks

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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92 <at> gmail.com>
To: Rudolf Adamkovič <salutis <at> me.com>
Cc: "Berry, Charles" <ccberry <at> health.ucsd.edu>, "52545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <52545 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, Kyle Meyer <kyle <at> kyleam.com>
Subject: bug#52545: 29.0.50; Make org-babel-execute-buffer ignore irrelevant src blocks
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2021 12:09:24 +0800

Rudolf Adamkovič <salutis <at> me.com> writes:

>> So, Org cannot distinguish between language backends that are simply
>> not loaded and the ones that do not define org-babel-execute:lang.
>
> Oh, if we have this architectural limitation in place, then Org cannot
> help the user, and every user will have "explain" to Org that executing
> BibTeX makes no sense.  I guess we can then close this bug then!

Not necessarily close. As I proposed above, one way is adding a user
customisation. And we do not have to force the users adding trivial
things like bibtex. Bibtex may be one of the defaults.

Best,
Ihor

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