John, I am in the process of bisecting my initialisation. Something I have set definitely stops org (whether 8.2.5c which comes with emacs 24.4.50.2 or 8.2.6-958) from recognising cite:... etc. as links.
However, I have been re-building up from no initialisation bit by bit. Right from the start, I get the error I posted yesterday: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) re-search-forward(nil 10001 t) tex-main-file() reftex-TeX-master-file() reftex-tie-multifile-symbols() reftex-access-scan-info((16)) reftex-parse-all() (and (buffer-file-name) (file-exists-p (buffer-file-name)) (global-auto-revert-mode t) (reftex-parse-all)) org-mode-reftex-setup() run-hooks(change-major-mode-after-body-hook text-mode-hook outline-mode-hook org-mode-hook) apply(run-hooks (change-major-mode-after-body-hook text-mode-hook outline-mode-hook org-mode-hook)) run-mode-hooks(org-mode-hook) org-mode() set-auto-mode-0(org-mode nil) set-auto-mode() normal-mode(t) after-find-file(nil t) find-file-noselect-1(#<buffer t.org> "~/s/test/t.org" nil nil "~/synced/test/t.org" (10095713 2055)) find-file-noselect("~/s/test/t.org" nil nil t) find-file("~/s/test/t.org" t) call-interactively(find-file nil nil) command-execute(find-file) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- This happens when I try to visit any org file *once* I have loaded org-ref the first time. It doesn't happen before org-ref is loaded. I am starting to despair, I must admit! I wonder if there is a conflict between Emacs 24.4.50 and org-ref? Or do you have some other setting for reftex that is not the default? Anyway, I have to get some work done so I will do without org-ref for the time being. I'll revisit later. thanks again for all your time, eric -- : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.4.50.2, Org release_8.2.6-958-g7c8559-git