Re: Bug: Following a link to a #+NAME causes '(wrong-type-argument stringp nil)' [9.3 (release_9.3 @ /usr/share/emacs/28.0.50/lisp/org/)]

[Kyle Meyer]

Dima Kogan writes:

> Hi. I'm using the org included with a recent build from emacs git. I
> have this tst.org:
>
> [[name][link]]
>
> * heading
> #+NAME: name
>
> text
>
> I open it with 'emacs -Q'. I move the point to the link at the top, and
> C-c C-o to follow the link. This doesn't work:
>
>   Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
[...]
> Apparently org doesn't like the empty line right after the #+NAME tag.
> Removing that empty line makes it work.

Thanks for the report.  As suggested in Dante's reply, the blank line
following #+name is invalid syntax.

  https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax.html#Affiliated_keywords

On maint (3bb073b63), the type error is now avoided for invalid name
keywords.  No attempt is made to match these keywords, though, so your
example won't lead to a match aside from through a fuzzy text search
when org-link-search-must-match-exact-headline is nil.