xml-mode complains bold is not a mode [was: derived-mode/autoload workaround]

Ville> Without this patch, my XEmacs 21.4.8 goes crazy when doing Ville> a "xemacs foo.xml" from the command line (I have .xml files Ville> associated to xml-mode). The weird thing is that the error Ville> messages vary between runs, and usually I get a crash. Ville> I'll try to get myself a proper environment for sending Ville> useful crash reports ASAP (and also take a look if I can Ville> fix the autoload code, maybe tomorrow). I believe this is a GC thing, now fixed in 21.4. The derived-mode fix is already in 21.4. 21.4.9 to be released shortly. However, xml-mode continues to complain that bold is not a mode. This error is misleading, it's due to a condition-case in files.el catching 'error instead of something more specific. I'm pretty sure the problem is in PSGML, possibly in psgml-html.el. I don't have time to investigate at the moment. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py