"wrong-type-argument stringp nil" when opening notes with helm-bibtex

[eren-rudy]

Describe the bug Can't open associated org-roam note when navigating citations with helm-bibtex.

To Reproduce

1. Sources imported to Zotero
2. Using Better Bibtex to export the file zotero.bib in BibLaTex format
3. Run helm-bibtex (using M-x : helm-bibtex)
4. Search for desired citation
5. Press TAB to bring up action options
6. Press F8 to open notes

Expected behavior I expect the org-roam node associated with the citation to open. Alternatively, if there is no org-roam node, it should create one. I have tried both cases without success.

Things I've tried

• doom doctorseemed to be complaining that org-ref wasn't loading, so I added (package! org-ref) in my packages.el, which seemed to resolve that issue.
• This workflow worked perfectly when I first set up ORB. When I noticed this error today, I tried updating all of the dependent packages without success.
• I thought this might be an issue with the bibtex format, so I've tried with both BibTex and BibLaTex (as generated by Zotero), changing the corresponding bibtex-dialect variable, without success. I've also tried removing all citations from the .bib file, other than one that I know I have used succesfully in the past, also without success.
• Everything behaves as expected when I run 'orb-insert-link', allowing me to search my references indexed from the .bib file and create a new note (or insert a link for one that already exists).

ORB configuration

1. How the package is loaded (I am using Doom) packages.el: (package! org-ref) (package! org-roam-bibtex :recipe (:host github :repo "org-roam/org-roam-bibtex")) (unpin! org-roam) (unpin! bibtex-completion helm-bibtex ivy-bibtex)

(use-package! org-roam-bibtex :after org-roam :config (require 'org-ref))

2. ORB options set to non-default values (e.g. 'orb-templates')

(setq org-roam-bibtex-mode t) (setq bibtex-completion-bibliography "~/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/zotero.bib") (setq bibtex-dialect 'biblatex) (setq org-ref-cite-insert-version 2)

Environment (please complete the following information):

• ORB commit or MELPA package version: 20220117.801
• Org Roam commit or MELPA package version: 20220126.554
• Org Mode version: 20210929
• Emacs framework [e.g. Doom, Spacemacs, Prelude, none]: Doom
• Emacs version [e.g. 26.3, 27.1]: 27.2
• OS: [e.g. Linux, macOS, Windows]: macOS 11.6

Screenshots Here is the debug output generated via toggle-debug-on-error

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
  expand-file-name(nil)
  find-file-noselect(nil nil nil nil)
  find-file-other-window(nil)
  bibtex-completion-edit-notes-default(("newportDeepWorkRules2016"))
  bibtex-completion-edit-notes(("newportDeepWorkRules2016"))
  helm-bibtex-edit-notes("newportDeepWorkRules2016")
  helm-execute-selection-action-1()
  helm-execute-selection-action()
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  helm-bibtex(nil)
  funcall-interactively(helm-bibtex nil)
  call-interactively(helm-bibtex record nil)
  command-execute(helm-bibtex record)
  execute-extended-command(nil "helm-bibtex" #("helm" 0 4 (ws-butler-chg chg)))
  funcall-interactively(execute-extended-command nil "helm-bibtex" #("helm" 0 4 (ws-butler-chg chg)))
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
  command-execute(execute-extended-command)

[myshevchuk]

The backtrace indicates that ORB functions are not actually called when you try to create notes with M-x helm-bibtex, F8, Open Notes. This can happen when you do not have org-roam-bibtex-mode running. Calling org-roam-bibtex-mode arranges for a few tweaks, in particular, it makes Helm-bibtex use Org-roam for note taking.

Indeed, the following statement in your config.el: (setq org-roam-bibtex-mode t) does not do what you think it should do. From the docstring of the org-roam-bibtex-mode variable:

Setting this variable directly does not take effect;
either customize it (see the info node (emacs)Easy Customization)
or call the function org-roam-bibtex-mode.

This is in fact true for any major or minor Emacs mode. One should call the corresponding function instead of setting the mode variable. Mode variables are sort of internal - they are often used in subroutines to determine whether a particular mode is running or not, but setting them directly - setting any Emacs variable - does not normally execute code.

So in short, put (org-roam-bibtex-mode +1) somewhere in your config. You can wrap this call in an after! org-roam statement, so as to load ORB after Org-roam.

[eren-rudy]

That did the trick, thank you! Somehow I had tricked myself into thinking that setting the variable manually had done something, I guess it had just been a very long time since I had quit Emacs.