Hi Jeff, Jeff Mincy <jeff(a)delphioutpost.com&gt; wrote: I had nuking make-comint-1 on my list of things to do, and managed to check it off without fixing its use in shell.el. Thanks for catching that. I'll double-check that I haven't done that with any other functions. I think this will be the appropriate fix for shell.el: Index: shell.el =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/packages/xemacs-packages/xemacs-base/shell.el,v retrieving revision 1.13 diff -d -u -r1.13 shell.el --- shell.el 2006/05/08 05:40:58 1.13 +++ shell.el 2006/05/08 22:40:23 ＠＠ -653,8 +653,8 ＠＠ (xargs-name (intern-soft (concat "explicit-" name "-args")))) (if (not (file-exists-p startfile)) (setq startfile (concat "~/.emacs.d/.emacs_" name))) - (setq buffer (set-buffer (apply 'make-comint-1 buffer - prog + (setq buffer (set-buffer (apply #'make-comint-in-buffer "shell" + buffer prog (if (file-exists-p startfile) startfile) (if (and xargs-name No, but (except for make-comint-1 obviously) I have been grepping for uses of changed/deleted functions in comint.el in both core and packages. -- Jerry James, Assistant Professor james(a)xemacs.org Computer Science Department http://www.cs.usu.edu/~jerry/ Utah State University