I can't say anything about indentation (I encounter problems that I
have not reported because of lack of time to investigate combined with
laziness - but I suspect they are, partly at least, of my own making).
But when I do `<e TAB' inside a block, I get a properly quoted (though
badly indented) example block, with commas before the #+begin and the
#+end_example lines - OTOH, `<e TAB' outside a block gives me a
no-indent example block even if I have spaces before the `<e' - if I
have printable charactes before the `<e', it does not get expanded:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+NAME: third
#+begin_src org
- an item
- subitem
,#+begin_example
,#+end_example
#+end_src
#+begin_example
#+end_example
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
The commas are important: are you not getting them?
--
Nick
"There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache
invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler