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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Professor John Kitchin 
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Department of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
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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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Professor John Kitchin 
Doherty Hall A207F
Department of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-268-7803