I found an easily solved bug in org-num. This happens when org-num-skip-commented is non-nil. When creating a new headline, often org-num--skip-value is invoked before any headline text is created. This means that ‘title‘ is nil and the string-match check breaks. Checking if title is non-nil fixes this.
TINYCHANGE --- lisp/org-num.el | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/lisp/org-num.el b/lisp/org-num.el index e816080..a5b044e 100644 --- a/lisp/org-num.el +++ b/lisp/org-num.el @@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ (defun org-num--skip-value () org-footnote-section (equal title org-footnote-section)) (and org-num-skip-commented + title (let ((case-fold-search nil)) (string-match org-num--comment-re title)) t) -- 2.28.0