I did notice myself that the two-space indentation for blocks that are part
of a list element are reserved and also that one can do what you are
suggesting here to keep the code-block as part of the list item while at
the same time not get those two extra spaces. (By the way, I don't like
that work-around.)

However for me that's what happened for example blocks only. For source
blocks I got an additional five spaces, for which I found no explanation.
(The only indentation in the Org source before the code-block lines are the
two part-of-a-list-element spaces.)

On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 3:46 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Jonas Bernoulli <jonasbernoulli@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > This seemed promising at first but let to all kinds of strange behavior.
> > Code-blocks that are part of a list item turned out to particularly
> > painful, as here "Finally, you can use ‘-i’ to preserve the indentation
> of
> > a specific code block" means that an additional five (if I remember
> > correctly) spaces appear out of nowhere (only for code-blocks,
> > example-blocks behaved as expected (or at least in an reasonable
> > way)).
>
> With -i, indentation is taken from column 0, so the five spaces didn't
> come out of nowhere, but probably from the indentation you gave to the
> contents of the source block, which is not necessary. E.g.,
>
> - Some list item
>
>   #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp -i
> This is the code, and it will not break list
>   #+END_SRC
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>