On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 06:27:47PM +0100, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: As requested: ,---- | Signaling: (error "Unrecognized char table type" parse-time-syntax) | make-char-table(parse-time-syntax) | (defvar parse-time-syntax (make-char-table (quote parse-time-syntax)))) | load-internal("parse-time.el" nil nil nil nil nil) | load("parse-time.el") | eval((load "parse-time.el")) | eval-interactive((load "parse-time.el")) | eval-last-sexp(nil) | call-interactively(eval-last-sexp) `---- This is a file that is part of XEmacs, this has nothing to do with GNU Emacs (although GNU Emacs does contain this file as well). To be sure: ,---- | ELISP> (locate-library "parse-time") | "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/gnus/parse-time.elc" | ELISP> (locate-library "parse-time.el") | "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/gnus/parse-time.el" | ELISP> (locate-library "parse-time.elc") | "/usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/gnus/parse-time.elc" `---- I don't actually use XEmacs so the installed version is as it was built and installed from source. I tried this change but it simply caused other problems on loading. Attached is the diff of the changes I made and here is the backtrace from attempting to load this new version: ,---- | Signaling: (wrong-type-argument arrayp #s(char-table type syntax data ( (?\^＠ ?ÿ) 13))) | aref(#s(char-table type syntax data ( (?\^＠ ?ÿ) 13)) ?0) | (if (aref parse-time-digits ?0) nil (loop for i from ?0 to ?9 do (set-char-table-range parse-time-digits i ...))) | ) | (unless (aref parse-time-digits ?0) (loop for i from ?0 to ?9 do (set-char-table-range parse-time-digits i ...))) | ) | load-internal("~/temp/parse-time.el" nil nil nil nil nil) | load("~/temp/parse-time.el") | load-library("~/temp/parse-time.el") | eval((load-library "~/temp/parse-time.el")) | eval-interactive((load-library "~/temp/parse-time.el")) | eval-last-sexp(nil) | call-interactively(eval-last-sexp) `---- -- Take a look in Hagbard's World: | lbdb.el - LBDB interface. http://www.hagbard.demon.co.uk/ | sawfish.el - Sawfish mode. http://www.acemake.com/hagbard/ | uptimes.el - Record emacs uptimes. emacs software, including.......| quickurl.el - Recall lists of URLs.