Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug, and the precise symptoms of the bug. If you can, give a recipe starting from 'emacs -Q': First off, I found a fix for this problem. I wasn't sure how to best submit that change but a bug report seemed appropriate so I went with that. After a short demonstration of the problem comes my diff. Apologies if anything is missing or confusing, I've never done this before. - Start up emacs: emacs -Q - Put this code into an org mode file: #+BEGIN_SRC elisp (print '((1 . 2))) #+END_SRC - Evaluate that code with: C-c C-c - This will fail when I think it should show the evaluation of the code. Here is it's backtrace: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument listp 2) mapcar(#[(f) "^HT^P ^H^X^Z\306\n!\204^Y^@\n:\203^Y^@\307\n^H\"\202^Z^@\n*\211^[\203`^@\310\f^M\"\203`^@^K\311\312^M\"\311\313^M\"D^^^N^Z\306\n!\203B^@\314\n^N^N\"\202\\^@\n\203\ O^@\314\315\n^N^N#\202\\^@^N^N\203Z^@^N^N@ \202\\^@^N^N*\202a^@^M^]^N^O^H^X^Z\306\n!\204y^@\n:\203y^@\307\n^H\"\202z^@\n*\206\200^@^N^P^MC^^^N^Z\306\n!\203\223^@\314\n^N^N\"\202\255\ ^@\n\203\240^@\314\315\n^N^N#\202\255^@^N^N\203\253^@^N^N@\202\255^@^N^N,\207" [i *orgtbl-efmt* fmt efmt orgtbl-exp-regexp f functionp plist-get string-match match-string 1 2 apply\ format args *orgtbl-fmt* *orgtbl-default-fmt*] 6] (1 . 2)) orgtbl-format-line((1 . 2)) orgtbl-format-section(nil) orgtbl-to-generic(((1 . 2)) (:remove-newlines t :tstart nil :tend nil :hline "|---" :sep " | " :lstart "| " :lend " |" :fmt (lambda (cell) (format "%s" cell)))) orgtbl-to-orgtbl(((1 . 2)) (:fmt (lambda (cell) (format "%s" cell)))) org-babel-insert-result(((1 . 2)) ("replace") ("elisp" "(print '((1 . 2)))" ((:comments . "") (:shebang . "") (:cache . "no") (:padline . "") (:noweb . "no") (:tangle . "no") (:e\ xports . "code") (:results . "replace") (:session . "none") (:hlines . "no") (:result-type . value) (:result-params "replace") (:rowname-names) (:colname-names)) "" nil 0 #) nil 0 "elisp") org-babel-execute-src-block(nil) org-babel-execute-src-block-maybe() org-babel-execute-maybe() org-babel-execute-safely-maybe() run-hook-with-args-until-success(org-babel-execute-safely-maybe) org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c(nil) funcall-interactively(org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c nil) call-interactively(org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c nil nil) command-execute(org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c) This is my diff for the change: diff --git a/lisp/org/ob-core.el b/lisp/org/ob-core.el index cfbcbe6..19b160d 100644 --- a/lisp/org/ob-core.el +++ b/lisp/org/ob-core.el @@ -2109,7 +2109,7 @@ code ---- the results are extracted in the syntax of the source (goto-char beg) (insert (concat (orgtbl-to-orgtbl (if (org-every - (lambda (el) (or (listp el) (eq el 'hline))) + (lambda (el) (or (funcall proper-list-p el) (eq el 'hline))) result) result (list result)) '(:fmt (lambda (cell) (format "%s" cell)))) "\n")) Explanation: If a "proper list" (i.e one that ends in "nil") is being evaluated then emacs will display that "proper list" as a table with one row for each element if EVERY element in the "proper list" satisfies "listp". Later the orgtbl-format-line function is repeatedly called with successive elements of the "proper list" and does a "mapcar" on the given element. This leads to the issue because a cons cell (1 . 2) satisfies "listp" but will choke "mapcar". In GNU Emacs 25.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin14.5.0) of 2017-04-22 built on Yosemite.local Configured using: 'configure --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-silent-rules --enable-locallisppath=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp --infodir=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/25.2/share/info/emacs --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs/25.2 --without-x --with-xml2 --without-dbus --without-gnutls --without-imagemagick --without-ns' Configured features: NOTIFY ACL LIBXML2 ZLIB Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Making completion list... Load-path shadows: None found. 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