Hi Nicolas,

I figured it out!

On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 12:48 AM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> writes:
>
> I cannot reproduce it. My minimal config is:
>
>   (setq org-export-async-init-file "~/dev/mini-init.el")
>
>
I didn't realize that async spawned a new emacs process and/or didn't have
access to the current config. Once I set up my own async-init-file, it
works.

Thank you!

   -k.