[ If <ispell-el-bugs> is not the appropriate address for reporting XEmacs-specific ispell bugs, please let me know. ] Has anyone noticed that ispell-comments-and-strings doesn't work under XEmacs? At least it doesn't work for me, with XEmacs 21.2-b32, ispell v3.3. When I type the command in a C mode or a Lisp mode buffer, I get the following error (backtrace uncompiled intentionally): Signaling: (error "Unterminated string or comment") signal(error ("Unterminated string or comment")) cerror("Unterminated string or comment") apply(cerror "Unterminated string or comment") error("Unterminated string or comment") (if (or (nth 3 state) (nth 4 state)) (error "Unterminated string or comment")) ) (let ((start ...)) (setq state (parse-partial-sexp start ... nil nil state ...)) (if (or ... ...) (error "Unterminated string or comment")) (save-excursion (setq done ...))) ) (if (or (nth 3 state) (nth 4 state)) (let (...) (setq state ...) (if ... ...) (save-excursion ...))) ) (while (not done) (setq done t) (setq state (parse-partial-sexp ... ... nil nil state ...)) (if (or ... ...) (let ... ... ... ...))) ) (let (state done) (while (not done) (setq done t) (setq state ...) (if ... ...))) ) (lambda nil "Check comments and strings in the current buffer for spelling errors." (interactive) (goto-char (point-min)) (let (state done) (while ... ... ... ...)))() call-interactively(ispell-comments-and-strings) command-execute(ispell-comments-and-strings t) execute-extended-command(nil) call-interactively(execute-extended-command) I don't know enough about parse-partial-sexp to be able to tell whether the problem is with XEmacs or with ispell; I do have a version of that function that works fine using the `syntactically-sectionize' mechanism of XEmacs: (defun ispell-comments-and-strings () (interactive) (syntactically-sectionize (lambda (start end context depth) (when (or (eq context 'string) (eq context 'comment) (eq context 'block-comment)) (ispell-region start end))) (point-min) (point-max)))