vin> You are correct that the lispref claims that concat takes an vin> int, but that capability was taken out of XEmacs awhile ago, vin> I think around 20.something. Stephen> I _was_ going to go fix the doc, but discovered more discrepancies. Stephen> Lispref says Stephen> (concat "abc" (list 120 (+ 256 121)) [122]) Stephen> ＠result{} "abcxyz" Stephen> but in reality Mule does Stephen> oops ==> "abcx,By(Bz" Stephen> (that's a Latin-2 character between x and z). Stephen> This is still considered a feature, right? Stephen> --with-mule=no XEmacs does as the manual says (computes Stephen> the character modulo 256), right? APA> No. APA> In (emacs-version) APA> "XEmacs 21.1 (patch 12) \"Channel Islands\" [Lucid] (i386-pc-win32) of APA> Sat Sep 16 2000 on ZJ75T" APA> (built without MULE) I get this: APA> (concat "abc" (list 120 (+ 256 121)) [122]) I just tried this in a -vanilla (emacs-version) "XEmacs 21.2 (beta36) \"Notus\" [Lucid] (i586-pc-win32) of Sat Oct 21 2000 on ZJ75T" and get the same error as shown below. So you guys don't get that error? APA> **Message-Log** APA> Wrong type argument: characterp, 377 APA> **Backtrace** APA> Signaling: (wrong-type-argument characterp 377) APA> concat("abc" (120 377) [122]) APA> eval((concat "abc" (list 120 (+ 256 121)) [122])) APA> eval-interactive((concat "abc" (list 120 (+ 256 121)) [122])) APA> eval-last-sexp((4)) APA> call-interactively(eval-last-sexp) APA> Adrian Stephen> -- Stephen> University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Stephen> Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 Stephen> _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ Stephen> What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules." APA> -- APA> Adrian Aichner APA> mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org APA> http://www.xemacs.org -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org