Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> writes:

> As an experiment, I replaced the org-mode from git with the debian 
> org-mode package version 7.8.11 and tried creating the table again.  
> This time, no errors.  Apparently something happened between 7.8.11 and 
> 7.9.11 to make this happen even with emacs 23.x systems.

I am using the latest git version:

,----
| Org-mode version 7.9.1 (release_7.9.1-149-gd5fddb.dirty @ /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/org/)
`----

and have no problems. You should really debug it by using the "mixed
installation" instructions in the FAQ.

Charles

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