Mark Borges <mdb(a)cdc.noaa.gov&gt; writes: APA> Try running APA> xemacs -no-init-file -no-site-file APA> which will not read the site start file nor the user init file. APA> I predict this will not put the *scratch* buffer in PenDel minor mode. This is correct for any reasonable version of XEmacs. You're obviously not running a reasonable version of XEmacs. Sun Workshop support, I presume? There's a bunch of really weird crap done for Sun Workshop that will not be part of official XEmacs.