Did anything change in the widget implementation ben? I had to put (setq progress-feedback-use-echo-area t) in my .emacs to avoid a crash when the progress bar was instantiated. If I load up gutter-items.el, this is the stack trace I get. Doesn't seem terribly useful. This was done with 'xemacs -q' and then doing turn-on-font-lock manually. The last few evals are: frame 2: actually calling Fdispatch_non_command_events frame 6: (condition-case t (dispatch-non-command-events) nil) frame 8: (progress-feedback-dispatch-non-command-events) frame 10: ((and (eq (specifier-instance bottom-gutter-height frame) (quote autodetect)) (gutter-element-visible-p bottom-gutter-visible-p (quote progress) frame)) (progn (redisplay-gutter-area) (progress-feedback-dispatch-non-command-events)) (set-specifier bottom-gutter-height (quote autodetect) frame) (set-gutter-element-visible-p bottom-gutter-visible-p (quote progress) t frame) (progress-feedback-dispatch-non-command-events) (redisplay-frame frame)) -bp -- Ceterum censeo vi esse delendam