Is there a way to call M-x my-org-babel-block?

Question

I have a named org-babel source block like this:

#+NAME: my-org-babel-block
#+BEGIN_SRC elisp :results output
(print org-babel-load-languages)
#+END_SRC

Is there any way to call this block with M-x my-org-babel-block?

Answer 1

No, but you can do something like this:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
  (defun my-org-babel-block ()
    (interactive)
    (org-sbe "my-org-babel-block"))
#+end_src

defining a command (i.e. a function with an interactive spec) that executes the block with the given name. You can now call the command with M-x my-org-babel-block which will use org-sbe to execute the block.

The doc string of org-sbe (which you can get with C-h f org-sbe RET) says in part:

org-sbe is a Lisp macro in ‘ob-table.el’.

(org-sbe SOURCE-BLOCK &rest VARIABLES)

Return the results of calling SOURCE-BLOCK with VARIABLES.

Each element of VARIABLES should be a list of two elements: the first element is the name of the variable and second element is a string of its value.