Org-Mode Details To Accompany Questions

The details that are likely to help questions to be answered on the org mailing list.

(print emacs-version)
(print org-version)
(print (pp-to-string org-babel-default-header-args))
(print (pp-to-string org-babel-default-header-args:R))

=

Eg:

"24.3.1"
"8.2.10"
"((:eval . \"always\")
 (:padline . \"yes\")
 (:noweb . \"no-export\")
 (:exports . \"both\")
 (:results . \"output replace\")
 (:comments . \"noweb\")
 (:session . \"none\")
 (:cache . \"no\")
 (:hlines . \"no\")
 (:tangle . \"no\"))
"
"((:session . \"*R*\"))
"

Edit a source block with its name shown in org

My preference is to rely upon heading property inheritance to define source block
names. That way, you can just do your work knowing “where” you are working and
keep it simple by not having to name everything. That was just fine until I
wrote a document where I needed to name each source block.
It gets easy to forget the source block’s name. Not the end of the world, but very nice to know.

(defun gcr/org-edit-src-code-plus-name ()
  "Edit the well-described source code block.
Attribution: URL `https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2014-09/msg00778.html'"
  (interactive)
  (let* ((eop  (org-element-at-point))
         (name (or (org-element-property :name (org-element-context eop))
                  "ॐ"))
         (lang (org-element-property :language eop))
         (buff-name (concat "*Org Src " name "[" lang "]*")))
    (org-edit-src-code nil nil buff-name)))

Problems installing (M)ELPA packages

In Problems installing (M)ELPA packages Sebastien wrote:

While using `package.el’ fulfills a long-awaited dream for easily adding and upgrading Emacs libraries, I now feel upgrading packages is much more complex than what I anticipated.
At least two of the packages I use daily (Org and Helm) require to be installed from inside a fresh Emacs session (emacs -Q), where nothing has been loaded.

I had wondered but never found out why one must follow this approach when installing org from scratch. Good to know!