> M-x comment-dwim works though. This is because org overrides massive amounts of Emacs default functions - in this case, in org-setup-comments-handling. org-m

> M-x comment-dwim works though. This is because org overrides massive amounts of Emacs default functions - in this case, in org-setup-comments-handling. org-mode doesn't really use syntax tables normally. Similar problems occur with strings. They are known issues, and unlikely to be fixed.