William Denton <w...@pobox.com> writes:
> After compiling from a fresh pull from Git today, setting
> org-file-apps is causing problems. I have this so make Org exports to
> PDF open in evince instead of Emacs's built-in docview:
>
> (delete '("\\.pdf\\'" . default) org-file-apps)
> (add-to-list 'org-file-apps '("\\.pdf\\'" . "evince %s"))
>
> This was fine last week, but today, on startup, either line causes this error:
>
> Symbol's value as variable is void: org-file-apps
>
> If I C-x C-e those two lines after startup has halted, there are no
> complaints.
>
> Did something about this variable change? I had a bit of a look but
> didn't see what could have caused it.
>
You probably have the initialization of the variable too early in your
initialization file. Make sure that you initialize it *after* org is loaded.
--
Nick
