yes, I am using emacs 24.3. John ----------------------------------- John Kitchin Associate Professor Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Thursday, 15 May 2014 at 09:05, John Kitchin wrote: > > Your error seems to be coming from reftex. > > Well, it seems that if you are going to use reftex in emacs 24.4.x, you > need to define some variables. I put the following in your > org-mode-reftex-setup function: > > (setq-local tex-start-of-header "%\\*\\*start of header") > (setq-local tex-end-of-header "%\\*\\*end of header") > > immediately after loading reftex and things work better (I haven't > checked whether everything works yet). > > The problem is that tex-mode assumes that it is active in a mode that > has been derived from tex-mode (such as latex-mode or plain-tex-mode) > and those modes define the variables above. Org-mode doesn't! > > This may be a change in tex-mode for the latest emacs versions? I > cannot verify this. > > Am I correct in believing that you are using emacs 24.3? > > -- > : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.4.50.2, Org > release_8.2.6-958-g7c8559-git >