> > The real problem is: how should Org react when parsing syntactically > erroneous buffers? I concede that freezing Emacs isn't nice, but otoh, > code can't deal with every possible user error. > > So, what is the expected behavior here? Consider orphan #+end_ as > normal text, throw an error, or both? An answer to this question would > be more useful than code, honestly. >
This is just opinion and gut reaction, but my first instinct is to say that Org just treat an orphan #+end_ as normal text (or technically as an Org-mode comment). The same is true for a floating #+begin_src. Until the block is closed, it is just a comment. Just opinions, Best -- Eric
