intro: "JV" == Jan Vroonhof <jan.vroonhof(a)ntlworld.com&gt; writes: Freshly built xemacs from CVS (without mule) fails to eval buffer with the folloing code: (progn (goto-char (point-min)) (re-search-forward(concat "[А]"))) I tried to walk along the code with gdb but i'm know too little to understand it properly. Nick JV> npak(a)ispras.ru (Nick V. Pakoulin) writes: JV> For me the problem goes away (non-mule, 22.2) when I remove the ^M JV> However that should not have been a problem for non-mule. Maybe the line JV> endings are inconsistent? JV> Jan