Mayer Goldberg <[email protected]> writes:

> I believe I have found a parsing bug in Org-mode (version 9.6.15).
>
> According to the Org manual (“Export Settings”), regions surrounded by
> #+BEGIN_COMMENT … #+END_COMMENT should not be exported.
> However, when a top-level headline (* HEADLINE) appears inside such a block,
> the headline is exported as if it were outside the block.

That's actually expected. Headlines are context-free, so that are
interpreted the same regardless where they appear.

> Workaround:
> Prepending a comma (Org’s escaping mechanism) to the headline:
>
> #+begin_comment
> ,* This is not exported
> #+end_comment

This is how Org syntax is, not a workaround.

I added a clarification to the manual.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=4fed5f96a
Fixed.

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