Giacomo, in my local tests, this fixes the gnuclient problem you were seeing. There is still a warning about the attempt to instantiate a pixmap specifier on a TTY; this warning is probably wrong, and I’ll fix it at some point, but this should be good enough for most purposes now. APPROVE COMMIT NOTE: This patch has been committed. # HG changeset patch # User Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; # Date 1288025857 -3600 # Node ID d185fa593d5fcf818ca0d27e53374348d936d7e8 # Parent 2474dce7304ec92f72eb42d0156ba0134aa9f6ee Specify ERROR_ME_WARN explicitly in specifier_instance_from_inst_list(). src/ChangeLog 2010-10-25 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * specifier.c (specifier_instance_from_inst_list): Call call_with_suspended_errors() with ERROR_ME_WARN, explicitly; avoids the problem Giacomo Boffi describes in http://mid.gmane.org/19617.52517.341117.388679＠aiuole.stru.polimi.it , but the specifier instantiation bug that makes XEmacs fail for him is still visible. diff -r 2474dce7304e -r d185fa593d5f src/ChangeLog --- a/src/ChangeLog Mon Oct 25 13:15:53 2010 +0100 +++ b/src/ChangeLog Mon Oct 25 17:57:37 2010 +0100 ＠＠ -1,3 +1,12 ＠＠ +2010-10-25 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; + + * specifier.c (specifier_instance_from_inst_list): + Call call_with_suspended_errors() with ERROR_ME_WARN, explicitly; + avoids the problem Giacomo Boffi describes in + http://mid.gmane.org/19617.52517.341117.388679＠aiuole.stru.polimi.it + , but the specifier instantiation bug that makes XEmacs fail for + him is still visible. + 2010-10-25 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; * print.c (ulong_to_bit_string): If printing zero, actually print diff -r 2474dce7304e -r d185fa593d5f src/specifier.c --- a/src/specifier.c Mon Oct 25 13:15:53 2010 +0100 +++ b/src/specifier.c Mon Oct 25 17:57:37 2010 +0100 ＠＠ -2826,7 +2826,7 ＠＠ if (HAS_SPECMETH_P (sp, instantiate)) val = call_with_suspended_errors ((lisp_fn_t) RAW_SPECMETH (sp, instantiate), - Qunbound, Qspecifier, errb, 5, specifier, + Qunbound, Qspecifier, ERROR_ME_WARN, 5, specifier, matchspec, domain, val, depth, no_fallback); if (!UNBOUNDP (val)) -- “Apart from the nine-banded armadillo, man is the only natural host of Mycobacterium leprae, although it can be grown in the footpads of mice.” -- Kumar & Clark, Clinical Medicine, summarising improbable leprosy research _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Patches mailing list XEmacs-Patches(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-patches