Cotton Seed <cottons(a)concmp.com&gt; wrote: <snip> <snip> I had a similar problem with 21.2.13, because somehow (I was too lazy to investigate why) the new ESC=^ in xemacs.mak did not work where it creates Installation.el. I "fixed" this by reverting to the old way there: <snip xemacs.mak to around line 461...> # Creation of Installation.el !if [type Installation] ||\ [echo (setq Installation-string ^">Installation.el] ||\ [type Installation >>Installation.el] ||\ [echo ^")>>Installation.el] !endif <...> FWIW... -- Cheers, -Dima.