This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, not to your local site managers!! Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. In XEmacs 21.5 (beta1) "anise" [Lucid] (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) of Fri Jun 22 2001 on sibelius configured using `configure --prefix=/s/chopin/d/proj/meps/common/' Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: I was trying to customize Gnus which I use for composing mail. When I went to try our my changes C-x m started mh-e instead of Gnus's message composition mode. I can reproduce this as follows start a fresh xemacs -vanilla then in *scratch* mail-user-agent => sendmail-user-agent (setq mail-user-agent 'message-user-agent) => message-user-agent mail-user-agent => message-user-agent ;; Traverse the menu ;; Options->Emacs->Advanced(customize)->Applications->Mail->Gnus ;; Bad mojo happens ;; Now mail-user-agent => mh-e-user-agent I don't think that just running around the menus should trample my mail program preferences. Thanks much for all your help, -Eric Recent keystrokes: down down up down down down down down down down down right right right RET down down up left left left left left left left left left left left left left left left left left left left left left left left left left left right right RET left RET 0 C-x m C-x k RET y e s RET button1 button1up C-x 1 C-h a C-x C-g C-g C-h k C-x m down down down down down down down down down down left left left left left left RET button2 button2up button2 button2up button3 misc-user button3 misc-user button1 button1up misc-user Recent messages (most recent first): Composing a message... Buffer is read-only: #<buffer "*Help: variable `mail-user-agent'*"> Quit C-x C-g not defined. Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, nil Composing a message... Loading mh-comp...done Loading mh-comp... Attempt to change text outside editable field To install your edits, invoke [State] and choose the Set operation