The current version of manual-entry, when used interactively, performs an re-search-backward through the whole $#＠%ing buffer in an attempt to find a default. The attached patch, whilst being a quick hack, does at least make manual-entry usable again (unlike before: try the existing version from a shell-mode buffer which contains the output from a few dozen builds of substantial packages). -- Glynn Clements <glynn(a)sensei.co.uk&gt; --- xemacs-packages/oa/edit-utils/man.el Tue Nov 14 02:41:09 2000 +++ xemacs-packages/oa/edit-utils/man.el.new Tue Mar 6 21:37:53 2001 ＠＠ -190,7 +190,8 ＠＠ (if (re-search-backward "\\sw\\|\\s_" nil t) (forward-char)) (re-search-backward - "\\(\\sw\\|\\s_\\)([0-9]+[A-Za-z]*\\=" nil t) + "\\(\\sw\\|\\s_\\)([0-9]+[A-Za-z]*\\=" + (- (point) 1000) t) (skip-syntax-backward "w_") (point)) (progn