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Subject: Re: #+BEGIN_html/#+END_html tags not exporting literally to html
 anymore?
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 09:38:11 -0700
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To: Adam Aviv <aviv@usna.edu>
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On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, Adam Aviv wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>>> If so, is there a way to make compilation backwards compatible. I have
>>> a lot of old org files that would be a pain to update.  Further, all
>>> the documentation on the org site is also out of date.
>>
>> a simple regex replace (or two I guess) will fix all in a file?
>

Better still `org-repair-export-blocks' will fix them.

It can be found in the

: *** New syntax for export blocks

section of ORG-NEWS.

>
> Yes, I agree --- but that's a burden on long time users even if it is a
> simple sed script.
>
> I just wonder why the #+BEGIN_HTML was removed in the first place? What
> harm was it doing?

As the ORG-NEWS section above notes, it fixes some parsing issues.

> And, why was this change made without updating the documentation to 
> reflect it?
>

It is updated. For example, see

 	(info "(org) Special blocks")
and
 	(info "(org) results")

and in ORG-NEWS.

Chuck