Hi Carsten -- > I cannot reproduce this, can you make me a backtrace, please? Sure. (I should also say I'm using Fedora 7, emacs 22.1.1, and org 5.15.) I entered C-u C-c r Backtrace -- Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument integer-or-marker-p nil) buffer-substring(312400 nil) (progn (buffer-substring (point) (mark))) (if current-prefix-arg (progn (buffer-substring ... ...))) (when current-prefix-arg (buffer-substring (point) (mark))) (list (when current-prefix-arg (buffer-substring ... ...))) call-interactively(remember) -- John Rakestraw