Dhruva> I would like to know why the "*Message*" buffer is Dhruva> absent. I do not get to see any error reporting. I feel we Dhruva> should have "*Message*" buffer or equivalent by default as Dhruva> in Emacs. We do. It's called " *Message-Log*" (note the leading space). Use M-x view-lossage to see a formatted buffer containing recent keystrokes and recent messages, or use C-x b to switch to it. XEmacs has a complicated hierarchy of warning/error levels (I just found out about this myself *blush*). Some warnings get silently dropped, others go in to the log buffer but otherwise you don't see them, others get echoed, and finally still others do something dramatic like abort the current command or pop up a warning dialog. If you think that some warning should be more prominent, take a look at the message to make sure it's clear, and tell us "when I do such-and-so, I'd really like the doctor to pop up a dialog in my face and tell me to _stop_ _doing_ _that_" instead of silently leaving me to later lose badly. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.