I think I have just fixed it. The offending command was trying to get an
org-element in the special edit buffer which wasn't in org-mode. Its not
clear why it worked in some codes and not others though!

John

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On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 7:01 AM, John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
wrote:

>
> On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 6:51 AM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
> wrote:
>
>> org-store-link-functions
>
>
> That is a function in org-ref. I will check it out this morning.  Thanks
> for the pointer to the root of the issue!
>
>
> John
>
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