On Thu, 5 Mar 2015, Richard Stanton wrote:

> I’m experimenting with tangling files in org-mode, and have found
> that certain files cause org-babel-tangle to ie with an error
> (Org-mode version 8.3beta (release_8.3beta-884-g9ed426). Here’s a
> small example:

>
> ————————————
>
> * Sample code
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC makefile :tangle makefile-main
> circle:
> 	@gfortran -c circle.f90
>
> main: circle
> 	@gfortran -c main.f90
> 	@gfortran circle.o main.o -o main
>
> clean:
> 	@rm -f *.o main
> #+END_SRC
>
> Run this block to tangle out the new files.
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> (org-babel-tangle)
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+RESULTS:
> | makefile-main |
>
> In this block I use this header:
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
> #+BEGIN_SRC sh :results raw
> #+END_EXAMPLE
>

[rest deleted]

===

#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
   ,#+BEGIN_SRC sh :results raw 
#+END_EXAMPLE

will work. The comma is stripped on export.

If you use org-edit-src (C-c C-c) on your original example block, it
will format it in that way automagically.

HTH,

Chuck