Hi I admit this is just a toy, but GNU emacs autosmiley provides a minor mode, which converts :) in smiley as you type! http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-de/download/autosmiley.el I tried to port it to Xemacs and countered some problems. It depends on their ;;; jit-lock.el --- just-in-time fontification -*- lexical-binding: t ;;; -*- Now jit-lock.el contains three functions, or macros not to be found in Xemacs defvar-local and setq-local. I just copied there definition (defmacro defvar-local (var val &optional docstring) "Define VAR as a buffer-local variable with default value VAL. Like `defvar' but additionally marks the variable as being automatically buffer-local wherever it is set." (declare (debug defvar) (doc-string 3)) ;; Can't use backquote here, it's too early in the bootstrap. (list 'progn (list 'defvar var val docstring) (list 'make-variable-buffer-local (list 'quote var)))) (defmacro setq-local (var val) "Set variable VAR to value VAL in current buffer." ;; Can't use backquote here, it's too early in the bootstrap. (list 'set (list 'make-local-variable (list 'quote var)) val)) And moreover (current-idle-time) which is a function implemented in C. So I just set: ;; (timer-set-idle-time jit-lock-stealth-repeat-timer (current-idle-time)) to (timer-set-idle-time jit-lock-stealth-repeat-timer nil) However the autosmiley still does not work, I obtain (change/warning) Error in `after-change-functions': (void-variable (memory-full)) Memory full again is a built-in C function, which I could just set to nil. But I feel that is turns now to be delicate. Anybody has interest or and idea or both? Uwe Brauer _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta