hi, Several months ago I wrote to the list about emacspeak. I've finally got arround to trying to figure out why emacspeak won't compile with xemacs. I have xemacs 20.4. There appear to be two main errors. the file thingatpt isn't in the xemacs distribution, and another one I don't understand about read syntax. I've appended below a sample of both errors. Compiling /usr/local/emacspeak11/emacspeak-w3.el... While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/local/emacspeak11/emacspeak-w3.el: !! Invalid read syntax (("#")) Done 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 Compiling /usr/local/emacspeak11/emacspeak-ispell.el... While compiling toplevel forms in file /usr/local/emacspeak11/emacspeak-ispell.el: !! File error (("Cannot open load file" "thingatpt")) Done Could someone explain breifley what the read syntax error means, it seems to be a problem with nearly all files in emacspeak. What replaced thingatpt.el in xemacs, and should it be difficult to convert to the new usage? thanks in advance. Bart