i'm not submitting a regular bug report as 21.5 is no mire usable in console, and i have to use 21.4.10 to send this email in short, following ms windows patch (nomen omen?) i was unable to use xemacs 21.5 in console it looks like it's idea of the dimensions of the terminal screen is gettin wronger and wronger, and the windows are shrinked in a corner of the screen... very funny, in a sense... the bug recipe is % xemacs -vanilla # no DISPLAY set M-x set-var RET debug-on-error RET t RET M-x vm RET and i get the attached lisp backtrace please note that setting debug-on-error to t, leaves 3 (three) modelines on my screen, leaves me with a severely shrinked *Lisp Interaction* buffer, and that when i do M-x vm the minibuffer is about in the 3rd-4th line of the terminal screen... i'm on debian linux, uname -a says Linux boffi95 2.2.21 #1 Wed Jul 17 12:52:48 CEST 2002 i586 unknown unknown GNU/Linux and this is the 21.5 "Installation" file uname -a: Linux boffi95 2.2.21 #1 Wed Jul 17 12:52:48 CEST 2002 i586 unknown unknown GNU/Linux ./configure '--extra-verbose' '--with-widgets' '--with-athena=3d' '--debug' '--rel-alloc' '--pdump' '--with-sound=no' XEmacs 21.5-b9 "brussels sprouts" (+CVS-20021217) configured for `i586-pc-linux'. Compilation / Installation: Source code location: /home/gb/src/xemacs Installation prefix: /usr/local Operating system description file: `s/linux.h' Machine description file: `m/intel386.h' Compiler: gcc -Wall -Wno-switch -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wsign-compare -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wshadow -Wmissing-declarations -g -O3 Relocating allocator for buffers: yes 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: Databases: Compiling in support for Berkeley database. Internationalization: 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. Using the new portable dumper. Compiling in support for extra debugging code. WARNING: --------------------------------------------------------- WARNING: Compiling in support for runtime error checking. WARNING: XEmacs will run noticeably more slowly as a result. WARNING: Error checking is on by default for XEmacs beta releases. WARNING: --------------------------------------------------------- and, finally, this is the lisp backtrace hth, ciao