Sam Steingold <sds(a)goems.com&gt; writes: Well, you should examine your .emacs for suspicious things. Or, if you really have no idea what's doing it, you can even take a binary-search-like approach and comment out halves of your .emacs seeing if the problem repeats. They are identical because all of the warnings you get are being shown. *Warnings* buffer is an internal buffer with all the warnings. If you set `display-warning-minimum-level' to something like `emergency', the -show buffer will disappear, and the *Warnings* buffer will continue existing in the background. We use `Emacs' as a generic name for both. You have a point; it might be considered a bug. Because there are people who still prefer doing things "the old way" (not to mention that `M-x apropos' is faster than the hyper version), and who would (rightfully) bitch and moan if we were to remove the old facility. We've been bitten by such things in the past, and it's best to have a conservative approach. Anyway, good luck with XEmacs, and thanks for being persistent and reporting the bugs. -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- The end of the world is coming... SAVE YOUR BUFFERS!