On trying to use this mode, I get the following error: Signaling: (error "Invalid image-instantiator format" autodetect) (from the backtrace). This is running xemacs-21.0 beta 66 on Win32, with the latest hm--html-mode package, and happens with --vanilla. This seems to be coming from the idd-make-drag-and-drop-pointer function, and it's not clear to me whether this is an NT bug (ie drag&drop isn't properly supported there), or a more general bug. Lisp stack is: Signaling: (error "Invalid image-instantiator format" autodetect) check-valid-instantiator([autodetect :data "c:\\Apps\\xemacs\\xemacs-21.0-current\\etc\\idd\\drop"] image) canonicalize-spec-list([autodetect :data "c:\\Apps\\xemacs\\xemacs-21.0-current\\etc\\idd\\drop"] image) set-specifier(#<image-specifier global=<unspecified> fallback=((nil . ...)) 0x12e0> [autodetect :data "c:\\Apps\\xemacs\\xemacs-21.0-current\\etc\\idd\\drop"] nil nil nil) set-glyph-property(#<glyph (pointer) #<image-specifier global=<unspecified> fallback=(...) 0x12e0>0x12df> image [autodetect :data "c:\\Apps\\xemacs\\xemacs-21.0-current\\etc\\idd\\drop"] nil nil nil) set-glyph-image(#<glyph (pointer) #<image-specifier global=<unspecified> fallback=(...) 0x12e0>0x12df> [autodetect :data "c:\\Apps\\xemacs\\xemacs-21.0-current\\etc\\idd\\drop"]) make-glyph([autodetect :data "c:\\Apps\\xemacs\\xemacs-21.0-current\\etc\\idd\\drop"] pointer) make-pointer-glyph([autodetect :data "c:\\Apps\\xemacs\\xemacs-21.0-current\\etc\\idd\\drop"]) idd-make-drag-and-drop-pointer-glyph() byte-code("..." [adapt-xemacsp idd-make-drag-and-drop-pointer-glyph #<compiled-function nil "...(45)" [idd-data-directory idd-mouse-pointer-image expand-file-name file-name-nondirectory mouse-pointer-image file-exists-p make-pointer-glyph vector autodetect :data idd-drag-and-drop-pointer-glyph message "Warning: Can't find drag and drop mouse pointer image!"] 6 "Creates the drag and drop pointer glyph.\nYou've to rerun this, if you change either the variable\n`idd-data-directory' or `idd-mouse-pointer-image'." nil> noninteractive console-on-window-system-p idd-help-start-action-keymap make-sparse-keymap adapt-emacsp define-key [(mouse-2)] idd-help-start-action "[(button2)]" idd-global-mouse-keys where-is-internal idd-mouse-drag-and-drop global-map t idd-help-mouse-drag-and-drop idd-global-help-mouse-keys provide internal-drag-and-drop] 4) load-internal("c:\\apps\\xemacs\\packages\\xemacs-packages\\lisp\\hm--html-menus\\internal-drag-and-drop.elc" nil t t binary) efs-real-load("c:\\apps\\xemacs\\packages\\xemacs-packages\\lisp\\hm--html-menus\\internal-drag-and-drop.elc" nil t t) load("c:\\apps\\xemacs\\packages\\xemacs-packages\\lisp\\hm--html-menus\\internal-drag-and-drop.elc" nil t nil) efs-real-require(internal-drag-and-drop "c:\\apps\\xemacs\\packages\\xemacs-packages\\lisp\\hm--html-menus\\internal-drag-and-drop.elc") require(internal-drag-and-drop) byte-code("..." [require internal-drag-and-drop cl] 2) load-internal("c:\\apps\\xemacs\\packages\\xemacs-packages\\lisp\\hm--html-menus\\hm--html-drag-and-drop.elc" nil t t binary) efs-real-load("c:\\apps\\xemacs\\packages\\xemacs-packages\\lisp\\hm--html-menus\\hm--html-drag-and-drop.elc" nil t t) load("c:\\apps\\xemacs\\packages\\xemacs-packages\\lisp\\hm--html-menus\\hm--html-drag-and-drop.elc" nil t nil) efs-real-require(hm--html-drag-and-drop "c:\\apps\\xemacs\\packages\\xemacs-packages\\lisp\\hm--html-menus\\hm--html-drag-and-drop.elc") require(hm--html-drag-and-drop) byte-code("..." [require hm--html-menu hm--html-keys hm--html-drag-and-drop &quot;muenkel(a)tnt.uni-hannover.de&quot; hm--html-menus-package-maintainer current-load-list "hm--html-menus" hm--html-menus-package-name "5.9" hm--html-menus-package-version hm--html-generate-help-buffer-faces] 2) load-internal("c:\\apps\\xemacs\\packages\\xemacs-packages\\lisp\\hm--html-menus\\hm--html-mode.elc" nil t t binary) efs-real-load("c:\\apps\\xemacs\\packages\\xemacs-packages\\lisp\\hm--html-menus\\hm--html-mode.elc" nil t t) load("hm--html-mode" nil nil nil) command-execute(hm--html-minor-mode t) execute-extended-command(nil) call-interactively(execute-extended-command) Cheers, Malcolm -- Malcolm Box malcolm(a)brownale.demon.co.uk