Gunnar Evermann <ge204(a)eng.cam.ac.uk&gt; writes: I tested it. Here's the recipe: C-x C-f test.txt (test.txt is a new file) a b c C-x C-s C-x k RET C-x b test.txt M-x grep a ./test.txt RET RET or click button2 (This should open test.txt<2> but it moves to test.txt instead). Fraser's fix worked fine so I'm going to apply following patch. Fraser, thank you very much for fixing this. If you come up with a fix next time, please submit a unified diff with plain ChangeLog entry to xemacs-patches like this. Thanks. 2000-10-11 Fraser Young <fyoung(a)anytimenow.com&gt; * compile.el (compilation-find-file): Reset buffer when its wrong. Index: compile.el =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs-packages/libs/xemacs-base/compile.el,v retrieving revision 1.16 diff -u -r1.16 compile.el --- compile.el 2000/08/04 08:43:14 1.16 +++ compile.el 2000/10/11 05:25:02 ＠＠ -1656,6 +1656,7 ＠＠ (if (compare-file-to-buffer buffer filename) (switch-to-buffer buffer) (progn + (setq buffer nil) ; its the wrong buffer, so forget it (if (file-name-absolute-p filename) ;; The file name is absolute. Use its explicit directory as ;; the first in the search path, and strip it from FILENAME. -- Yoshiki Hayashi