menubar weirdness

Start xemacs -vanilla. Click in the menubar somewhere between the 'Lisp-Interaction' menu and the 'Load .emacs' button. Type C-x and get an error `Wrong type argument: characterp. "Load .emacs"'. Huh? Version: "21.2 (beta27) \"Hera\" XEmacs Lucid" CVS updated 01/19 19:00 JST (GMT+9). Installation: uname -a: Linux tleepslib 2.2.10 #2 Thu Jun 24 19:22:23 JST 1999 i686 unknown ./configure '--with-mule' '--with-xim=xlib' '--with-xfs' '--with-sound=none,native,nas' '--with-widgets=athena' '--with-athena=3d' '--with-dialogs=athena' XEmacs 21.2-b27 "Hera" configured for `i686-pc-linux'. Where should the build process find the source code? /home/steve/Projects/XEmacs/xemacs-21.2 What installation prefix should install use? /usr/local What operating system and machine description files should XEmacs use? `s/linux.h' and `m/intel386.h' What compiler should XEmacs be built with? gcc -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch Should XEmacs use the GNU version of malloc? yes (Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library.) Should XEmacs use the relocating allocator for buffers? yes What window system should XEmacs use? x11 Where do we find X Windows header files? /usr/X11R6/include Where do we find X Windows libraries? /usr/X11R6/lib Athena library to link: Xaw3d Athena header include path: X11/Xaw3d Compiling in support for XAUTH. Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG image handling. Compiling in support for (builtin) GIF image handling. Compiling in support for JPEG image handling. Compiling in support for TIFF image handling. Compiling in native sound support. Compiling in network sound (NAS) support. Compiling in support for Berkeley DB. Compiling in support for ncurses. Compiling in Mule (multi-lingual) support. Compiling in XIM (X11R5+ I18N input method) support. Using raw Xlib to provide XIM support. Using XFontSet to provide bilingual menubar. Compiling in support for Canna on Mule. Compiling in support for the WNN input method on Mule. Compiling in support for proper WM_COMMAND handling. Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Athena native widgets. Using Athena dialog boxes. Compiling in dynamic shared object module support. movemail will use "dot-locking" for locking mail spool files. Compiling in extra code for debugging. WARNING: --------------------------------------------------------- WARNING: Compiling in support for runtime error checking. WARNING: XEmacs will run noticeably more slowly as a result. WARNING: Error checking is on by default for XEmacs beta releases. WARNING: --------------------------------------------------------- -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."