On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 02:19:27PM +0000, Andrea Crotti wrote:
> What is exactly the reason for org-goto to need to be at least in the 
> first headline to work?
> 
> I always get this error when I just try to jump in the first line:
> byte-code: Before first headline at position 1 in buffer ..

Do you by any chance have `org-goto-interface' set to
outline-path-completion (or are you using org-goto with a prefix
argument)?

If so, I've also come across this problem. I think it's a bug in
org-goto, which should pass NO-EXCLUDE to org-refile-get-location (but
doesn't). The attached patch fixes this for me (or you can pull the
"org-goto" branch from http://www.dr-qubit.org/git/org-mode.git).

HTH,

Toby
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Dr T. S. Cubitt
Mathematics and Quantum Information group
Department of Mathematics
Complutense University
Madrid, Spain

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