Re: [PATCH] before emit an error message, try to load the babel language

[Ihor Radchenko]

lin Sun <sunlin7@yahoo.com> writes:

> Before the error message, the patch will give a try to load the
> associated babel language.
>
> Why does the language exist in the `lang org-babel-load-languages' but
> not be loaded?
> Because the `org-babel-load-languages' are defined as a customer
> variable with  :set 'org-babel-do-load-languages,  the ":set" function
> can only be triggered with function `custom-set-variables`.
> While setq/cl-pushnew `org-babel-load-languages' won't trigger the
> `:set' function, then the error message will be displayed if I run the
> code in the org file.

If we want to solve the problem of setting `org-babel-load-languages'
outside `defcustom', we should also consider unloading and other places
that use `fboundp' to check if babel backend is loaded. IMHO, the
cleanest way will be using `add-variable-watcher'.

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