Re: Debugging at least 2 regressions in org-mode master breaking ox-hugo

[Kaushal Modi]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 9:00 AM Kaushal Modi <address@hidden> wrote:

Failure 2: Change in parsing of org babel header arguments.

The relevant snippet where I parse the header arguments in ox-hugo.el is at https://github.com/kaushalmodi/ox-hugo/blob/f8ec4aa5ad7d92f94bd8dbb814d85f980be67aea/ox-hugo.el#L2563

This behavior change in org-babel-parse-header-arguments is also not documented in ORG-NEWS. I will now investigate what cause this regression.

The regression is caused by https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode/commit/6b2a7cb20b357e730de151522fe4204c96615f98 or the later commit that changes `org-babel--string-to-number'.

Using this function redefinition with additional debug messages:

(defun org-babel--string-to-number (string)
  "If STRING represents a number return its value.
Otherwise return nil."
  (message "DBG: string: %S" string)
  (unless (string-match-p "\\s-" (org-trim string))
    (let ((interned-string (ignore-errors (read string))))
      (when (numberp interned-string)
        (message "DBG: interned string: %S" interned-string)
interned-string))))

I get:

DBG: string: "1,3-5"
DBG: interned string: 1

So that ",3-5" piece of information is lost.