Hi, I'm trying to figure out why I'm getting consistent failures using org-bibtex-yank. This appears to be identical to the problem posted here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31174281/org-bibtex-yank-fails-with-wrong-type-argument-stringp-nil On my system I am using a fresh Ubuntu 23.04 VM with the following emacs and org-mode build info: GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.37, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2023-08-11 Org mode version 9.7-pre (release_9.6.7-652-gcfea24 @ /home/test/org-mode/lisp/) My backtrace is very similar to that posted in the stackoverflow thread: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) looking-at(nil) bibtex-parse-entry() org-bibtex-read() org-bibtex-yank() funcall-interactively(org-bibtex-yank) call-interactively(org-bibtex-yank record nil) command-execute(org-bibtex-yank record) execute-extended-command(nil "org-bibtex-yank" nil) funcall-interactively(execute-extended-command nil "org-bibtex-yank" nil) call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil) command-execute(execute-extended-command) My steps to reproduce, with this as my init.el file: (add-to-list 'load-path "~/org-mode/lisp") (require 'org-loaddefs) 1. Open test.org in emacs. 2. Copy a bibtex entry in Firefox, for example this entry from Google Scholar: @article{dominik2004org, title={Org Mode Manual}, author={Dominik, Carsten}, year={2004} } 3. In the org file call M-x org-bibtex-yank. After that I experience the failure above 100% of the time. Attempts to troubleshoot: One of the comments in the stackoverflow thread mentioned that a reason this could have failed was that the variable "bibtex-dialect" wasn't set. C-h v confirms it was set in my case (to "BibTeX"), but the problem was still present. I added a line in my init.el file "(setq bibtex-dialect 'biblatex)" just to double check and the problem was still present. As described in the same comment, with my original 2 line init.el file above, 1. simply opening a new file "dummy.bib" (doing nothing with it), 2. then opening "test.org", 3. copying a bibtex entry in Firefox, 4. calling org-bibtex-yank caused org-bibtex-yank to correctly function. I did not need to call bibtex-set-dialect as the comment described.
