There seems to be a fairly nasty bug caused by :PROPERTIES: drawers still being recognised by org when they appear inside BEGIN_EXAMPLE or BEGIN_SRC blocks. I encountered this behaviour while writing docs for "org-drill". The doc file, README.org, contains quoted examples of org "items", and also of an emacs lisp capture template containing the string ":PROPERTIES:".
The first thing I noticed was that PROPERTIES drawers inside EXAMPLE/SRC blocks appear *folded* when the file is opened in org mode, and 'org-cycle' toggles their folded status, as if they belonged to a real org heading. That is cosmetic, but I also encountered a more serious problem. README.org contains the following block of example elisp code, which is meant to illustrate an example setup of org-capture: #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp (setq org-capture-templates `(("u" "Task: Read this URL" entry (file+headline "tasks.org" "Articles To Read") ,(concat "* TODO Read article: '%:description'\nURL: %c\n\n") :empty-lines 1 :immediate-finish t) ("w" "Capture web snippet" entry (file+headline "my-facts.org" "Inbox") ,(concat "* Fact: '%:description' :" (format "%s" org-drill-question-tag) ":\n:PROPERTIES:\n:DATE_ADDED: %u\n:SOURCE_URL: %c\n:END:\n\n%i\n%?\n") :empty-lines 1 :immediate-finish t) ;; ...other capture templates... )) #+END_EXAMPLE Basically, every time I tried to export this file to HTML, Emacs would become unresponsive (C-g did nothing) and would have to be killed with the task manager (or xkill in Linux -- I tried on 2 systems). After about 20 crashes and restarts of Emacs, I finally identified the problem (I think). when I changed the above block from BEGIN_SRC to BEGIN_EXAMPLE, the file exported correctly. I think org was seeing the ":PROPERTIES" string within the elisp code and trying to interpret it as the beginning of a drawer, with disastrous results. Once I managed to fix the problem for myself I did not investigate it further. However I hope someone can fix it as it certainly caused a stressful afternoon. Paul PS: I also realised that I was confused regarding how to get a syntax- highlighted block of "example source code" into an org document, as BEGIN_SRC appears to execute the code by default, which was not what I wanted. Should BEGIN_EXAMPLE take an argument which specifies syntax highlighting (eg "BEGIN_EXAMPLE emacs-lisp")? _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode