Avi> "value of function make-annotation is void" You don't have the xemacs-base package installed. For hysterical raisins (ie, we made a mistake and did so in a tedious-to-fix way) the default download does not include the packaged Lisp, which contains most of the functionality of XEmacs. What you should do is (1) download ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/xemacs-sumo.tar.gz (and ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/xemacs-mule-sumo.tar.gz if you have build with Mule support for non-Latin-1 character sets). These files are also available compressed via bzip2 with the .bz2 extension instead of .gz. (2) mdkir and cd to $prefix/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages, where prefix is the directory specified for Installation prefix in the file Installation in the top directory of the build tree (also available by typing M-x describe-installation to your xemacs). (3) untar xemacs-sumo.tar.gz there. (If you have Mule, then (2-mule) mdkir and cd to $prefix/lib/xemacs/mule-packages. (3-mule) untar xemacs-mule-sumo.tar.gz there.) If that arrangement doesn't suit you, then read README.packages for more details, and figure out what you want to do within the parameters described there. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.