Question

If I am writing about emacs org-mode in an org-mode document, how do I properly escape examples. e.g.

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE 
#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE 
* This is a heading
#+END_EXAMPLE
#+END_EXAMPLE

should show

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE  
* This is a heading
#+END_EXAMPLE

but I need to escape the #+END_EXAMPLE somehow. I’m not finding it in the manual.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi think you should use #begin_src org, since you want to write Org-Mode snippets.

#+begin_src org
  ,#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE  
  ,* This is a heading
  ,#+END_EXAMPLE
#+end_src

You can easily edit those snippets with M-x `org-edit-special' RET or C-c '.