So I followed boldly your advice and it sort of worked. I obtained an error message which looks very similar from the attempt with weblogger, clearly the culprit is xml-rpc.el (this version works with emacs 22) Here comes the error Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Selecting deleted or non-existent buffer") xml-rpc-request-process-buffer(" *URL*") I do not understand this non-existent buffer message Here the trace in in full detail Uwe _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta