PATCH 21.5 Further investigation showed that it was only the console slot that wasn't being copied and should have. This fixes the problem for me. Doug, can you give this patch a try? src/ChangeLog addition: 2006-04-22 Jerry James <james(a)xemacs.org&gt; * event-stream.c (copy_command_builder): Also copy the console. xemacs-21.5 source patch: Diff command: cvs -q diff -uN Files affected: src/event-stream.c Index: src/event-stream.c =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/src/event-stream.c,v retrieving revision 1.93 diff -d -u -r1.93 event-stream.c --- src/event-stream.c 2006/02/27 16:29:24 1.93 +++ src/event-stream.c 2006/04/23 03:05:24 ＠＠ -429,6 +429,8 ＠＠ if (!new_buildings) new_buildings = XCOMMAND_BUILDER (allocate_command_builder (Qnil, 0)); + new_buildings->console = collapsing->console; + new_buildings->self_insert_countdown = collapsing->self_insert_countdown; deallocate_event_chain (new_buildings->current_events); -- Jerry James, Assistant Professor james(a)xemacs.org Computer Science Department http://www.cs.usu.edu/~jerry/ Utah State University