David Loyall wrote:

> >[...] if one doesn't have systematic general escaping, there
> > will always be legitimate uses that will not be addressable.

> +1
>
> As a lowly user, I have often wished for a hypothetical function called org-escapify-region.  (And of
> course the reverse function.)

Just another instance that I had to deal with today.
When using reveal and ox-reveal one needs to set
#+REVEAL_ROOT: "path/to/reveal.js"

I wanted to 'comment out' that line.
After trying ':' and single-quote neither of which worked, I finally got it
by making it into:

#+REVEAL_ROOT_XX: ...