Dear Achim, Thanks a lot for your help!
> Try adding (require 'org) or alternatively — if you know you never > use the Org version that comes with Emacs (that means you need to be > extra careful with things like 'emacs -Q') — (require 'org-loaddefs). I tried both adding (require 'org) and (require 'org-loaddefs) to ~/.emacs but they both make no difference to this problem, I still get the error call-interactively: Symbol's value as variable is void: err Instead, adding the following to ~/.emacs does work, but this seems to be just a hack. Should I really use this? (load-library "org-compat.el") (load-library "org-odt.el") > here's your real-world example of how things don't work if the wrong autoload > definitions are used. Does this mean there are possibly more things that did not load as they should? Thanks a lot again! Best wishes, Torsten -- Dr Torsten Anders Course Leader, Music Technology University of Bedfordshire Park Square, Room A315 http://www.torsten-anders.de