Hi all afaik, this was the chain of events : 1. I updated yasnippets. afterwards a lot of org normal behaviour (like exporting and sbe ) changed. 2. after tinkering I decided to just compile the same version of cocoa-emacs I had from scratch, but I could not use sbe from tblfm . 3. I d/l the latest version from http://emacsformacosx.com still to no avail.. before all this , I could run my sbe commands with no problem. any ideas? thanks...