Regarding the @ problem, where and how do you make the settings.  As I
have said on this list recently, I find that I have to set the variables
concerned *before* I load org (through =(require 'org-install)=) or
otherwise the regular expressions that use these variables are
initialised incorrectly (I believe this is the root cause of the
problem).

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: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1
: using Org-mode version 7.4 (release_7.4.223.g71650)

 
Thanks Eric - I've done as you suggested and that works for @.

Now to blocks and columns which are also not working
- I suspect another upgrade of org-mode.

Bill




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