The help message seems to get mangled towards the end. With nomule: ../../configure --prefix=/usr --statedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info/xemacs-21.2-b42 --extra-verbose --error-checking=typecheck,extents,bufpos --debug=no --dynamic '--cflags=-Wall -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wno-switch -Wpointer-arith -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-uninitialized -Wshadow -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mcpu=k6 -march=k6 -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations' --with-sound=esd --with-x11 --with-widgets=athena --with-dialogs=athena --with-athena=3d --with-ncurses --with-tty=yes --with-pop --with-site-lisp --without-gpm --without-mule --docdir=/usr/lib/xemacs-21.2-b42/i386-debian-linux/nomule/ '--package-path=~/.xemacs::/usr/share/xemacs21/packages:/usr/share/xema cs21/site-packages' i386-debian-linux XEmacs 21.2 (beta44) "Thalia" [Lucid] (i386-debian-linux) of Tue Feb 13 2001 on flashingchance When creating a window on an X display, XEmacs accepts all standard X Toolkit command line options plus the following: -iconname <title> Use title as the icon name. -mc <color> Use color as the mouse color. -cr <color> Use color as the text-cursor foregound color. -private Install a private colormap. In addition, the following options are accepted: -sd Show dump ID. Ignored when configured without --pdump. -nd Don't load the dump file. Roughly like old temacs. Ignored when configured without --pdump. -t <device> Use TTY <device> instead of the terminal for input and output. This implies the -nw option. -nw Inhibit the use of any window-system-specific display code: use the current tty. -batch Execute noninteractively (messages go to stderr). -debug-init Enter the debugger if an error in the init file occurs. -unmapped Do not map the initial frame. -no-site-file Do not load the site-specific init file (site-start.el). -no-init-file Do not load the user-specific init file. -no-early-packages Do not process early packages. -no-autoloads Do not load global symbol files (auto-autoloads) at startup. Also implies `-vanilla'. -vanilla Equivalent to -q -no-site-file -no-early-packages. -q Same as -no-init-file. -user-init-file <file> Use <file> as init file. -user-init-directory <directory> Use <directory> as init directory. -user <user> Load user's init file instead of your own. -u <user> Same as -user. -help on> -version message displayed in *scratch* buffer at startup. If this is nil, no message will be displayed. -V Same as -version. -funcall <form> lly. -f <form> Same as -funcall. -eval le> -load command-line-do-kill Exit XEmacs. -l Same as -load. -insert and exit. -i Same as -insert. -kill his. -------- And with mule: ../../configure --extra-verbose --error-checking=typecheck,extents,bufpos --debug=no --dynamic '--cflags=-Wall -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wno-switch -Wpointer-arith -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-uninitialized -Wshadow -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -pipe -s -mcpu=k6 -march=k6 -ffast-math -fexpensive-optimizations' --use-union-type --with-sound=esd --with-x11 --with-widgets=athena --with-dialogs=athena --with-athena=3d --statedir=/var/lib --infodir=/usr/share/info/xemacs-21.2-b42 --prefix=/usr --with-ncurses --with-tty=yes --with-pop --with-site-lisp --with-gpm=no --with-mule=yes --docdir=/usr/lib/xemacs-21.2-b42/i386-debian-linux/nomule/ '--package-path=~/.xemacs::/usr/share/xemacs21/packages:/usr/share/xema cs21/site-packages' i386-debian-linux XEmacs 21.2 (beta44) "Thalia" [Lucid] (i386-debian-linux, Mule) of Tue Feb 13 2001 on flashingchance When creating a window on an X display, XEmacs accepts all standard X Toolkit command line options plus the following: -iconname <title> Use title as the icon name. -mc <color> Use color as the mouse color. -cr <color> Use color as the text-cursor foregound color. -private Install a private colormap. In addition, the following options are accepted: -sd Show dump ID. Ignored when configured without --pdump. -nd Don't load the dump file. Roughly like old temacs. Ignored when configured without --pdump. -t <device> Use TTY <device> instead of the terminal for input and output. This implies the -nw option. -nw Inhibit the use of any window-system-specific display code: use the current tty. -batch Execute noninteractively (messages go to stderr). -debug-init Enter the debugger if an error in the init file occurs. -unmapped Do not map the initial frame. -no-site-file Do not load the site-specific init file (site-start.el). -no-init-file Do not load the user-specific init file. -no-early-packages Do not process early packages. -no-autoloads Do not load global symbol files (auto-autoloads) at startup. Also implies `-vanilla'. -vanilla Equivalent to -q -no-site-file -no-early-packages. -q Same as -no-init-file. -user-init-file <file> Use <file> as init file. -user-init-directory <directory> Use <directory> as init directory. -user <user> Load user's init file instead of your own. -u <user> Same as -user. -help empty file that you just visited (presumably by mistake), use this command to visit the file you really want. Under XEmacs/Mule, optional second argument specifies the coding system to use when decoding the file. Interactively, with a prefix argument, you will be prompted for the coding system. -version y) is used unchanged if that name is free; otherwise a string <2> or <3> or ... is appended to get an unused name. -V Same as -version. -funcall command to visit the file you really want. Under XEmacs/Mule, optional second argument specifies the coding system to use when decoding the file. Interactively, with a prefix argument, you will be prompted for the coding system. -f Same as -funcall. -eval nt specifies the coding system to use when decoding the file. Interactively, with a prefix argument, you will be prompted for the coding system. -load y, with a prefix argument, you will be prompted for the coding system. -l Same as -load. -insert e-file-buffer Create a suitably named buffer for visiting FILENAME, and return it. FILENAME (sans directory) is used unchanged if that name is free; otherwise a string <2> or <3> or ... is appended to get an unused name. -i Same as -insert. -kill and return it. FILENAME (sans directory) is used unchanged if that name is free; otherwise a string <2> or <3> or ... is appended to get an unused name.