On 9 Sep 2016, at 11:48, Eric S Fraga wrote:

> On Friday,  9 Sep 2016 at 12:06, Kai von Fintel wrote:
>> When I embed LaTeX code in a #+BEGIN_SRC latex block and
>> org-src-fontify-natively is set to t, the code is fontified as LaTeX
>> code. But when the code is embedded in a #+BEGIN_LaTeX block, there's
>> no fontification. Is that as intended? Am I missing some setting? Or
>> could that functionality be added?
>
> What version of org are you using?  In latest versions, begin_latex is
> now
> #+begin_export latex
> ...
> #+end_export
> and this does fontify correctly for me.

Hmm, I *thought* I was up to date: Org-mode version 8.3.5 
(8.3.5-8-gd2cb29-elpaplus @ 
/Users/fintel/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20160905/). I guess I have 
to somehow get Spacemacs to use the bleeding edge version of org rather 
than the latest stable version?

-- Kai.