My html styles are in a file my-org.css in ~/orghacks I need (for various reasons) to inline these styles I have this code in my init to change the html style --------------------------------- (defun rusi/load-css() "Returns string from css file (hardwired) suitable for inline css" (interactive) (setq org-export-html-style (with-temp-buffer (insert "\n\n") (buffer-string)))) (rusi/load-css) -------------------------------- Now if I edit and save the my-org.css file and then call M-: (rusi/load-css) it does not work. Restarting emacs makes it work. Ive checked that org-export-html-style is actually changed. However org-mode seems to be keeping some internal copy after first use. org-reload is not helping here