Hello This looks really bizarre. I have been using wdired for years. It allows me to edit files in dired mode on the fly. But right now, I cannot use query-replace-regexp anymore. The error is attached below. query-replace-regexp is also defined in wdired. And C-h f says that it takes query-replace-regexp from that file, instead of replace.el So I edited replace.el (I shouldn't maybe) addding (provide 'replace) to it byte compiled in and added (require 'replace) in my init file. Then C-h f tells me that query-replace-regexp is used from replace. So far so good. But no change in the bizarre behaviour of query-replace-regexp! Only if I do not load wdired, query-replace-regexp works as expected. I even tried to debug the function but the debugger would even start. Anybody has an idea? thanks Uwe Brauer Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable from-string) query-replace-regexp("\\(\\<[A-Z]*\\>\\)" "|\\1") eval((query-replace-regexp "\\(\\<[A-Z]*\\>\\)" "|\\1")) eval-interactive((query-replace-regexp "\\(\\<[A-Z]*\\>\\)" "|\\1")) eval-last-sexp(nil) call-interactively(eval-last-sexp) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta