Marcus> I just noticed that the variable `before-change-functions' Marcus> is not buffer-local. However, `after-change-functions' is Marcus> buffer-local. Does that make sense? No. Thanks for the report, I'm not sure what makes sense here, but this doesn't. Marcus> I couldn't find anything in the ChangeLog for 21.4.9, so I Marcus> assume the bug is still there. It'll be in 21.4.10, too. I'm not going to hold up release further for this, but something addressing it will be in an rc next week. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: In my running instance of 21.4.6, neither of them is buffer-local. Some evil code must be calling `make-variable-buffer-local' instead of `make-local-variable'. Marcus, you could try doing something like this in your `.emacs'[1]: (lexical-let ((fun (indirect-function 'make-variable-buffer-local))) (fset 'make-variable-buffer-local (lambda (variable) (if (eq variable 'after-change-functions) (debug "I'm an evil son of a bitch")) (funcall fun variable)))) Then use XEmacs as you'd usually do. When the offending code gets evaluated, you should hit the debugger. If the stack trace doesn't make too much sense, try loading the non-compiled version of the file in question (e.g. `(load "foo.el")'). After that it should be easy to break its legs or let a professional do it. If that doesn't work, something subtler might be going on. But that's what I'd try first. [1] No, I never did learn how to use `defadvice'. Don't try to educate me, I'm too old and crusty. But I do use `lexical-let' in every possible opportunity and then some.