Hello Robert, Please turn to the mailing lists advertized in http://www.xemacs.org/Debug/index.html for help configuring, compiling and using XEmacs. Please always specify the version of XEmacs you are using and the configuration (M-x describe-installation). You may just submit an XEmacs bug report. This will include all the required information about your XEmacs installation automatically. However, the following will probably not yet work in XEmacs 20.4: If necessary/possible, please install the latest net-utils package (>= 1.23) and then use Help->Send Bug Report... or M-x report-emacs-bug as suggested in http://www.xemacs.org/Debug/index.html This will tell us enough about your XEmacs installation so that we should be able to help you. Hope this helps, Adrian Robert> XEmacs Users Robert> sun, solaris Robert> System: SunOS fresnel 5.7 Generic_106541-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1 Robert> Architecture: sun4 Robert> xemacs v. 20.4 Robert> type in + followed by \ followed by ) Robert> Lisp backtrace follows: Robert> skip-syntax-backward("/\\") Robert> # (unwind-protect ...) Robert> blink-matching-open() Robert> self-insert-command(1) Robert> # bind (command-debug-status) Robert> call-interactively(self-insert-command) Robert> # bind (beg other-end p arg) Robert> cperl-electric-rparen(nil) Robert> # bind (command-debug-status) Robert> call-interactively(cperl-electric-rparen) Robert> # (condition-case ... . error) Robert> # (catch top-level ...) Robert> Segmentation Fault -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/