interesting. I do have auxtex installed, but I don't think I configure it
anywhere. I do require reftex and reftex-cite in my init files. I also set
the default reftex bibliography.

(setq reftex-default-bibliography
'("~/Dropbox/bibliography/references.bib"))

I will try to reproduce this tomorrow.

John

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On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> John,
>
> another data point.  When I try to load an org file, once org-ref is
> loaded, I get the following problem:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
>   re-search-forward(nil 10001 t)
>   tex-main-file()
>   reftex-TeX-master-file()
>   reftex-tie-multifile-symbols()
>   reftex-access-scan-info((16))
>   reftex-parse-all()
>   (and (buffer-file-name) (file-exists-p (buffer-file-name))
> (global-auto-revert-mode t) (reftex-parse-all))
>   org-mode-reftex-setup()
>   run-hooks(change-major-mode-after-body-hook text-mode-hook
> outline-mode-hook org-mode-hook)
>   apply(run-hooks (change-major-mode-after-body-hook text-mode-hook
> outline-mode-hook org-mode-hook))
>   run-mode-hooks(org-mode-hook)
>
> Because of this, org-ref doesn't get initialised properly.
>
> Any idea what may be causing this?  Do I need to configure auctex or
> similar?
>
> thanks,
> eric
>
> --
> : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.4.50.2, Org
> release_8.2.6-958-g7c8559-git
>