problem summary: in macro 'kbd', the function 'read-kbd-macro' is called, but `read-kbd-macro' is not defined in any libraries of a basic xemacs distribution. more info: macro `kbd' is defined in keymap.el , which is included with the basic xemacs distribution. `kbd' uses `read-kbd-macro'. `read-kbd-macro' is defined in edmacro.el, which is not included with the basic xemacs distirbution suggestion: add package edmacro.el to the basic XEmacs distribution environment: XEmacs 21.5 (patch 3) "asparagus" [Lucid] (i586-pc-linux) of Fri Sep 21 2001 on tokamak.dtdns.net