Carlos> Did a xemacs --debug-paths& and got: Carlos> emacs-roots: Carlos> ("c:\\progra~1\\xemacs\\xemacs-21.4.9\\") Carlos> configure-package-path: Carlos> ("~\\.xemacs" "" "c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\site-packages" "c:\\Program Carlos> Files\\ Carlos> XEmacs\\xemacs-packages") Carlos> early-packages and early-package-load-path: Carlos> nil Carlos> nil Carlos> late-packages and late-package-load-path: Carlos> ("c:\\carlos\\.xemacs\\") Carlos> nil Carlos> last-packages and last-package-load-path: Carlos> nil Carlos> nil Carlos> lisp-directory: Carlos> "c:\\progra~1\\xemacs\\xemacs-21.4.9\\lisp\\" Carlos> site-directory: Carlos> nil Carlos> Info-directory-list: Carlos> ("c:\\progra~1\\xemacs\\xemacs-21.4.9\\info\\") Carlos> exec-directory: Carlos> c:\progra~1\xemacs\xemacs-21.4.9\i586-pc-win32\ Carlos> exec-path: Carlos> ("C:\\mksnt\\" "C:\\PROGRA~1\\INTERN~1\\" "C:\\WINNT\\system32\\" "C: Carlos> \\WINNT\\" Carlos> "C:\\WINNT\\System32\\Wbem\\" "C:\\Program Files\\Maestro.nt\\" "C: Carlos> \\CMVC95\\CMV Carlos> C\\EXE\\" "c:\\progra~1\\xemacs\\xemacs-21.4.9\\i586-pc-win32\\" "C: Carlos> \\PVCS\\cb\\ Carlos> nt\\" "C:\\CMVC95\\CMVC\\EXE\\" "C:\\Carlos\\bin\\" "C: Carlos> \\Progra~1\\Xemacs\\XEmac Carlos> s-21.4.9\\i586-pc-win32\\" "C:/carlos/bin\\" "c:/carlos\\" Carlos> "c:/carlos/bin\\" "c: Carlos> \\progra~1\\xemacs\\xemacs-21.4.9\\i586-pc-win32\\") Carlos> doc-directory: Carlos> "c:\\progra~1\\xemacs\\xemacs-21.4.9\\i586-pc-win32\\" Carlos> data-directory: Carlos> "c:\\progra~1\\xemacs\\xemacs-21.4.9\\etc\\" Carlos> data-directory-list: Carlos> ("c:\\progra~1\\xemacs\\xemacs-21.4.9\\etc\\") Carlos> I don't presume to know what the hell I'm talking about, Carlos> but it seems to me that neither the "early-packages" or Carlos> "late-packages" have a valid path. Maybe they don't have Carlos> to. I did copy in the packages from a previous install. Carlos> I thought that was the normal thing to do since you just Carlos> unpack them, right? I don't remember there being a actual Carlos> install process that would set up these paths. Carlos> Anyway, if I mv the pkg dir Carlos> "c:/progra~1/XEmacs/XEmacs-21.4.9/xemacs-packages" up one directory to Carlos> "c:/progra~1/XEmacs", will that work? That seems to be one of the paths Carlos> under the configure-package-path list. Hi Carlos, yes, mv xemacs-packages (mule-packages and site-packages as well, if you have them) up one directory. This will work. Best regards, Adrian Carlos> Thanks. Carlos> Carlos Carlos> ---------------------- Forwarded by Carlos Cantu/Boulder/IBM on 09/19/2002 Carlos> 01:01 PM --------------------------- Carlos> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen＠xemacs.org&gt;(a)xemacs.org on 09/17/2002 Carlos> 06:31:56 PM Carlos> Sent by: xemacs-beta-admin(a)xemacs.org Carlos> To: Carlos Cantu/Boulder/IBM＠IBMUS Carlos> cc: xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org Carlos> Subject: Re: c-mode not installed Carlos> You won't believe this but Send Bug Report under the Help Carlos> menu is grey'd-out. And M-x report-... gives no match. Carlos> This means your packages are not being found for some reason. Carlos> Try running "xemacs --debug-paths". This will tell you where XEmacs Carlos> expects to find the packages. You can also set the environment Carlos> variable EMACSPACKAGEPATH. If you know your packages are in Carlos> c:\progra~1\XEmacs/XEmacs-21.4.9/xemacs-packages/lisp/cc-mode Carlos> and similar for other package names besides cc-mode, Carlos> set EMACSPACKAGEPATH c:\progra~1\XEmacs/XEmacs-21.4.9 Carlos> may give you some joy. Carlos> HTH Carlos> -- Carlos> Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Carlos> http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp Carlos> University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 Carlos> JAPAN Carlos> My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I Carlos> don't Carlos> have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert Carlos> c.l.py -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/