Daniel Clemente <n142857@gmail.com> writes:

>   there was a recent change to how the tags table is initialized. I think
> that as a side effect, some tag functions like org-tags-expand don't work
> unless you open an org-mode buffer first. I have a small bash script that
> exports my agenda; right in the beginning (before opening any org-mode
> file) it collects some data by calling org-map-entries. org-map-entries
> needs org-tags-expand, which now fails because the syntax table hasn't been
> initialized yet.
>
> Minimal case to reproduce this:

Thanks for reporting!
Fixed, on main.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=24ed8b204

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