Hi, In the skeleton.el, which is in xemacs-base backage has a bug where inserting the beginning delimiter results in a pair of BEGINNING delimiters instead of one beginning and one end. This is with '-q' option and the latest packages as of today (Mar. 1 2003). 1. xemacs -q 2. insert into scratch and evaluate: (global-set-key [(\()] 'skeleton-pair-insert-maybe) (setq skeleton-pair t) 3. press <\(> While attempting to debug this I found a bigger bug with edebug, which see. -- Le