hmm, it would be nice to have something more confident that would convince me that it's in fact related to the syntax tables. usually you should be able to attach, but try it now, and if it doesn't work, restart xemacs under a debugger, because some sort of stack trace would make a *huge* difference. ------- Original Message ------- On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:31:55 +0900 Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Wing <wing(a)666.com&gt; writes: Ben> Vin -- I'll see what I can do, in another week or so. It Ben> would help a lot if there were an easier way of reproducing Ben> the problem (Stephen?) -- since it doesn't occur with Ben> --vanilla i may not be able to reproduce it at all. I'm still having no luck. I'll try to get a stack trace, but I'm not running under the debugger---I'll have to see if I can attach to the running process. A number of things that should be clarified: (1) I have NOT been able to reproduce any such bugs in 21.4, probably because it needs to run Gnus for a while. The "running process" is a 21.5 (Installation attached below). Note that it's CVS as of September. (2) The reason I suspect the syntax code is because that's the obvious way I can see that Message Mode would affect regexp processing, specifically for ?_ with a \w in the regexp. My suspicion about the syntax code is not the code that Matt Tucker ported, it's that I suspect that Message mode depends on inheritance of syntax tables which we don't support. uname -a: Linux tleepslib 2.4.20 #6 Tue Apr 1 18:33:57 JST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux /coda/tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/Software/XEmacs/21.5/configure '--with-widgets=athena' '--with-athena=3d' '--with-dialogs=athena' '--with-mule' '--with-xim=xlib' '--with-xfs' '--external-widget' '--with-modules' '--use-number-lib=gmp' '--debug' '--error-checking=all' '--memory-usage-stats' XEmacs 21.5-b17 "chayote" (+CVS-20040921) configured for `i686-pc-linux'. Compilation Environment and Installation Defaults: Source code location: /coda/tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/Software/XEmacs/21.5 Installation prefix: /usr/local Operating system description file: `s/linux.h' Machine description file: `m/intel386.h' Compiler version: gcc (GCC) 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-11) - GCC specs file: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.4/specs - Compiler command: gcc -Wall -Wno-switch -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wunused-parameter -Wunused-variable -Wsign-compare -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wpacked -Wshadow -Wmissing-declarations -g -O3 libc version: GNU libc 2.3.2.ds1-16 (Debian) Relocating allocator for buffers: no GNU version of malloc: yes - Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library. Window System: Compiling in support for the X window system: - X Windows headers location: /usr/X11R6/include - X Windows libraries location: /usr/X11R6/lib - Handling WM_COMMAND properly. Compiling in support for the Athena widget set: - Athena headers location: X11/Xaw3d - Athena library to link: Xaw3d Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Athena dialog boxes. Using Athena native widgets. TTY: Compiling in support for ncurses. Compiling in support for GPM (General Purpose Mouse). Images: Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin). Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG images. Compiling in support for JPEG images. Compiling in support for TIFF images. Compiling in support for X-Face message headers. Sound: Compiling in support for sound (native). Compiling in support for NAS (network audio system). Databases: Compiling in support for Berkeley database. Compiling in support for PostgreSQL. - Using PostgreSQL header file: postgresql/libpq-fe.h - Using PostgreSQL V7 bindings. Internationalization: Compiling in support for Mule (multi-lingual Emacs). Compiling in support for XIM (X11R5+ I18N input method). - Using raw Xlib to provide XIM support. - Using XFontSet to provide bilingual menubar. Compiling in support for Canna on Mule. Compiling in support for the WNN input method on Mule. Mail: Compiling in support for "dot-locking" mail spool file locking method. Other Features: Inhibiting IPv6 canonicalization at startup. Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules. Compiling in support for more number types using the GNU MP library. Using the new portable dumper. Compiling in support for extra debugging code. Compiling in support for runtime error checking. WARNING: --------------------------------------------------------- WARNING: XEmacs will run noticeably more slowly as a result. WARNING: Error checking is on by default for XEmacs beta releases. WARNING: --------------------------------------------------------- -- 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.