Gunnar> exec-installed-p is in apel/path-utils.el Gunnar> shouldn't there be something like (require 'path-utils) Gunnar> in image-mode.el? Probably unnecessary. It's autoloaded if APEL is installed. Gunnar> do we need to fix the package-index as well (i.e. make Gunnar> text-modes require apel)>? Steve went to some trouble to clean dependencies on APEL out of non-Mule libraries at one point. I don't know whether that's the right thing to do or not, but this particular example doesn't inspire me to use APEL. `exec-installed-p' is not a predicate, in fact it returns a useful value (namely, the full path to the executable). Then in image-mode.el that value is ignored in favor of the unqualified name of the executable, which is the worst possible thing to do. IMO, either the full path computed by `exec-installed-p' at load time should be used, or (preferably, I think) `image-start-external-viewer' should do a condition-case on `start-process' to handle 'file-error. I'll code that second patch tomorrow unless somebody thinks it's a bad idea. -- 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."