Re: Allowed characters/formatting in Org text blocks

[Ihor Radchenko]

Fabio Natali <me@fabionatali.com> writes:

> Now consider a slight variation where "Hello world" is formatted as a
> Org heading. The 'org-babel-goto-named-src-block' function is no longer
> able to identify the text block. Executing the Emacs Lisp block results
> in the error message below.
>
> #+name: bar
> #+begin_src text
> * Hello world
> #+end_src
> ...
> Is this expected? Am I misunderstanding what text blocks are for and
> what characters/formatting they're allowed to use?

Headline markup has the highest priority. Your block is interpreted as

<paragraph with #+name affiliated keyword>
#+name: bar
#+begin_sec text
<headline>
* Hello world
<paragraph>
#+end_src

See https://orgmode.org/manual/Literal-Examples.html
You need to escape "*" and "#+" at the beginning of line inside code
blocks using comma: ",*", ",#+".
Org will do it for you automatically if you use C-c ' interface to edit
source blocks.

Best,
Ihor