Re: [O] Babel should not work in the subtree marked as not exported

[Samuel Wales]

> No.  This has been raised previously and there was a consensus that it
> is often desirable for code in a COMMENT section to be evaluated on
> export.  Personally I often stuff code blocks into COMMENT sections
> which I want run as part of my publishing process (e.g., to create
> resources used in the exported document).

i won't go against consensus, but to me the expectation is that it
acts just like commented lines.

for your use case, could you use a section marked noexport or
org-export-with-tasks?  i would use the latter.

if this has been raised before, please ignore.