T V Raman writes: Only when (eq zmacs-regions t), and the mark has been made inactive. I imagine that emacspeak runs commands all the time, and these commands deactivate the mark, so (mark) returns nil. Any of these commands should set `zmacs-region-stays' to `t' so that the region will stay active (or not). If the region is not active, then C-w will not work, and you won't need to tell the user anything anyway. Alternatively, you can force people to set `zmacs-regions' to `nil' to use emacspeak, but that seems evil. -- Colin