Nicolas, again, thanks for fixing this bug but I wonder if you would mind thinking about the approach to error handling. The user error handling was short-circuiting the normal file handling, in particular some of the hooks and other processing that would have been expected to be invoked. In this case, I had used recentf to visit the file. Because of the user error, the buffer wouldn't appear at all. Likewise, projectile processing was being terminated. Both aspects caused me some confusion, to say the least... Is there an alternative means of raising an error or warning without terminating normal processing? thanks, eric -- : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.3.1, Org release_8.3beta-265-g7cf7e4