Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi(a)ifi.uio.no&gt; writes: Uh, I really don't understand what the code above is supposed to do. The FSF Emacs Lisp manual seems a bit unclear: Each char-table has a "subtype" which is a symbol. In order to be a valid subtype, a symbol must have a `char-table-extra-slots' property which is an integer between 0 and 10. This integer specifies the number of "extra slots" in the char-table. What does this mean? What are the "extra slots" good for, and why is the code above setting them to zero? I'm baffled! -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- The end of the world is coming... SAVE YOUR BUFFERS!