Hi,

the variable org-link does contain 'textcite' (as well as all other bibtex
and biblatex link types defined by org-ref/reftex).

org-link-types is a variable defined in `org.el'.
Its value is
("http" ... "citep*" "citealt" "citealt*" "citealp" "citealp*" "citenum"
"citetext" "citeauthor" "citeauthor*" "citeyear" "citeyear*" "Citet"
"Citep" "Citealt" "Citealp" "Citeauthor" "Cite" "parencite" "Parencite"
"footcite" "footcitetext" "textcite" "Textcite" ... "rmail")

Regards,
Christopher.

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Christopher Dannheim <ch.dannheim@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > in my textfiles, links created with org-ref-insert-cite-link are not
> enclosed
> > in brackets (textcite:sth), while those created with  org-insert-link are
> > ([[textcite:sth]]). Recently, the links without the  brackets are not
> > recognized by my emacs anymore (clicking on them results in 'user error.
> no
> > link found' and they are not exported to latex correctly). However, they
> > are underlined and thus 'look' like links.
> >
> > My emacs-Version is 24.4.1, my org-mode version is 8.3.
> >
> > I know that I used to be able to compile the files that contained links
> without
> > brackets fine in the past. Do you have any idea what could cause this?
>
> textcite:sth is correct as long as "textcite" is recognized as a link
> type. Does it belong to `org-link-type' value?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>