Bart> hi, Bart> Several months ago I wrote to the list about emacspeak. Bart> I've finally got arround to trying to figure out why Bart> emacspeak won't compile with xemacs. I have xemacs 20.4. Bart> There appear to be two main errors. the file thingatpt Bart> isn't in the xemacs distribution, and another one I don't Bart> understand about read syntax. I've appended below a sample Bart> of both errors. Hello Bart, where can I find emacspeak-w3.el? Bart> Compiling /usr/local/emacspeak11/emacspeak-w3.el... Bart> While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/local/emacspeak11/emacspeak-w3.el: Bart> !! Invalid read syntax (("#")) Bart> Done Regarding the second issue: XEmacs 21.1(.9) has a fsf-compat package, which contains thingatpt: (locate-library "thingatpt") "c:\\XEmacs\\xemacs-packages\\lisp\\fsf-compat\\thingatpt.elc" How about upgrading to that version? Is it a big concern of yours to make emacspeak work with older versions of XEmacs? Bart> xemacs -batch -q -no-site-file -l `pwd`/emacspeak-load-path -eval "(setq byte-compile-dynamic t)" -f batch-byte-compile `pwd`/emacspeak-ispell.el Bart> Compiling /usr/local/emacspeak11/emacspeak-ispell.el... Bart> While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/local/emacspeak11/emacspeak-ispell.el: Bart> !! File error (("Cannot open load file" "thingatpt")) Bart> Done Bart> Could someone explain breifley what the read syntax error means, it Bart> seems to be a problem with nearly all files in emacspeak. Bart> What replaced thingatpt.el in xemacs, and should it be difficult to Bart> convert to the new usage? Hope this helps, Adrian Bart> thanks in advance. Bart> Bart