Hello,

"Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:

>> The real problem is: how should Org react when parsing syntactically
>> erroneous buffers? I concede that freezing Emacs isn't nice, but otoh,
>> code can't deal with every possible user error.
>>
>> So, what is the expected behavior here? Consider orphan #+end_ as
>> normal text, throw an error, or both? An answer to this question would
>> be more useful than code, honestly.
>>
>
> This is just opinion and gut reaction, but my first instinct is to say
> that Org just treat an orphan #+end_ as normal text (or technically as
> an Org-mode comment).
>
> The same is true for a floating #+begin_src.  Until the block is closed,
> it is just a comment.

As it's the only answer so far, I guess it was more trivial than
I thought.

Here is a patch that should fix the original problem.

Martyn, as you are writing tests, would you mind running it against
them, before I apply it?

Many thanks in advance.

Regards,