Torsten Anders <torsten.anders <at> beds.ac.uk> writes: > 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
Yes, that problem is apparently someplace else. I'll let Jambunathan have a go first. > 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") If the problem is where I think it is, then a (require 'org-compat) should be a valid workaround until the final fix is in Org. > Does this mean there are possibly more things that did not load as they > should? The combination of the version of Org in your version of Emacs and a more recent Org can't be expected to work correctly in all cases unless you add one of the requires I've shown. Regards, Achim.