Gunnar> I'm having faces trouble in xemacs and I'm hoping someone Gunnar> can help. I just spent several hours and there seems to Gunnar> be a weird bug/feature. Hopefully I'm just making a Gunnar> mistake. Gunnar> When I upgraded to version 21.1.12 of xemacs I started Gunnar> having a problem with my syntax coloring. When I open a Gunnar> file from the command prompt like this: Gunnar> xemacs main.C Gunnar> then everything is fine and the colors display as I've set Gunnar> them in my .emacs file. However, after emacs is running Gunnar> and I open a new file using C-x 5 f (or meta-x Gunnar> find-file-other-frame) the new file has the wrong colors. Gunnar> All the syntax is highlighed with some default set of Gunnar> colors that are totally different than the ones I chose. I hate to say, "me too", but ... "me too". Here is the installation (it is the precompiled XEmacs with Mule features): uname -a: SunOS ashanti 5.7 Generic i86pc i386 i86pc /home/jason/wk/XEMACS/admin/binary-kits/21.1/solaris-kits/build/xemacs-src/configure 'i386-pc-solaris2.7' '--prefix=/usr/local' '--bindir=/usr/local/bin/i386-pc-solaris2.7-mule' '--site-includes=/usr/local/include' '--site-libraries=/usr/local/lib/xemacs-static' '--with-gnu-make' '--without-gcc' '--cflags=-v -xstrconst -mr -Qn -xO4 -xdepend -xlibmil' '--with-menubars=lucid' '--with-scrollbars=lucid' '--with-dialogs=motif' '--with-xpm' '--with-xface' '--with-tooltalk' '--with-gif' '--with-png' '--with-jpeg' '--with-database=dbm' '--with-cde=no' '--with-workshop=no' '--with-mule=yes' '--with-canna' XEmacs 21.1-p3 "Acadia" configured for `i386-pc-solaris2.7'. Where should the build process find the source code? /home/jason/wk/XEMACS/admin/binary-kits/21.1/solaris-kits/build/xemacs-src What installation prefix should install use? /usr/local What operating system and machine description files should XEmacs use? `s/sol2.h' and `m/intel386.h' What compiler should XEmacs be built with? cc -v -xstrconst -mr -Qn -xO4 -xdepend -xlibmil Should XEmacs use the GNU version of malloc? yes Should XEmacs use the relocating allocator for buffers? yes What window system should XEmacs use? x11 Where do we find X Windows header files? /usr/dt/include /usr/openwin/include Where do we find X Windows libraries? /usr/dt/lib /usr/openwin/lib Additional header files: /usr/local/include Additional libraries: /usr/local/lib/xemacs-static Runtime library search path: /usr/ccs/lib:/usr/dt/lib:/usr/openwin/lib:/opt/SUNWdt/lib Compiling in support for XAUTH. Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG image handling. Compiling in support for (builtin) GIF image handling. Compiling in support for JPEG image handling. Compiling in support for X-Face message headers. Compiling in support for DBM. Compiling in Mule (multi-lingual) support. Compiling in XIM (X11R5+ I18N input method) support. Using Motif to provide XIM support. Compiling in support for Canna on Mule. Compiling in support for ToolTalk. Compiling in support for proper session-management. Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Motif dialog boxes. Compiling in DLL support. movemail will use "dot-locking" for locking mail spool files. Thanks, -- Alexander Burchell Wilshire Associates aburchel(a)wilshire.com (310) 899-2303