Hi, I'm the emacs-lisp n00b who's audaciously decided to take over maintenance of ruby-modes. I'm having a great deal of difficulty figuring out what the dickens the backtrace means. I can't even see where it's telling me the line number or method name it failed on. Sorry if it's obvious, but although I'm an experienced programmer, lisp is completely new to me. /usr/bin/xemacs -no-autoloads -vanilla -batch -eval '(setq stack-trace-on-error t load-always-display-messages t load-ignore-out-of-date-elc-files t load-show-full-path-in-messages t)' -eval '(setq load-path (list lisp-directory))' -l /home/ayqazi/src/packages/xemacs/cvs/packages/package-compile.el -- xemacs-base debug -- -f batch-byte-compile ruby-electric.el Loading /usr/lib/xemacs-21.4.20/lisp/auto-autoloads... Loading /home/ayqazi/src/packages/xemacs/cvs/packages/xemacs-packages/debug/auto-autoloads... Loading /home/ayqazi/src/packages/xemacs/cvs/packages/xemacs-packages/xemacs-base/auto-autoloads... Compiling /home/ayqazi/src/packages/xemacs/cvs/packages/xemacs-packages/ruby-modes/ruby-electric.el... While compiling ruby-electric-mode in file /home/ayqazi/src/packages/xemacs/cvs/packages/xemacs-packages/ruby-modes/ruby-electric.el: ** reference to free variable ruby-electric-mode-hook ** reference to free variable ruby-electric-mode-on-hook ** reference to free variable ruby-electric-mode-off-hook While compiling toplevel forms: !! End of file or stream ((#<buffer " *Compiler Input*">)) backtrace(nil t) # bind (error-info) byte-compile-report-error((end-of-file #<buffer " *Compiler Input*">)) # bind (error-info) #<compiled-function (error-info) "...(4)" [error-info byte-compile-report-error] 2>((end-of-file #<buffer " *Compiler Input*">)) read(#<buffer " *Compiler Input*">) # (unwind-protect ...) #<compiled-function nil "...(43)" [byte-compile-unresolved-functions byte-compile-inbuffer 1 " \n" nil looking-at ";" byte-compile-file-form read byte-compile-flush-pending byte-compile-warn-about-unresolved-functions] 3>() # (unwind-protect ...) call-with-condition-handler(#<compiled-function (error-info) "...(4)" [error-info byte-compile-report-error] 2> #<compiled-function nil "...(43)" [byte-compile-unresolved-functions byte-compile-inbuffer 1 " \n" nil looking-at ";" byte-compile-file-form read byte-compile-flush-pending byte-compile-warn-about-unresolved-functions] 3>) # (unwind-protect ...) # bind (byte-compile-warnings-beginning byte-compile-point-max-prev byte-compile-log-buffer byte-compile-macro-environment byte-compile-function-environment byte-compile-autoload-environment byte-compile-unresolved-functions byte-compile-bound-variables byte-compile-free-references byte-compile-free-assignments byte-compile-verbose byte-optimize byte-compile-emacs19-compatibility byte-compile-dynamic byte-compile-dynamic-docstrings byte-compile-warnings byte-compile-file-domain byte-compile-outbuffer float-output-format case-fold-search print-length print-level byte-compile-constants byte-compile-variables byte-compile-tag-number byte-compile-depth byte-compile-maxdepth byte-compile-output eval filename byte-compile-inbuffer) byte-compile-from-buffer(#<buffer " *Compiler Input*"> "/home/ayqazi/src/packages/xemacs/cvs/packages/xemacs-packages/ruby-modes/ruby-electric.el") # bind (byte-compile-current-file target-file input-buffer output-buffer byte-compile-dest-file load filename) byte-compile-file("ruby-electric.el") byte-code("..." [file byte-compile-file t] 2) # (condition-case ... . ((error (byte-code "ÂÃ!ˆÂ!ˆÂÄ!ˆÅÆ!«‡Æ Ç\"ˆª' ＠ÈN(r)‚ ＠!ˆÉÊ A\"ˆÂË!ˆÇ‡" ... 3)))) # bind (file) batch-byte-compile-1("ruby-electric.el") # bind (error file-to-process) batch-byte-compile-one-file() # bind (error) batch-byte-compile() # bind (arg) command-line-do-funcall("-f") # bind (dir file-count line end-of-options file-p arg tem) command-line-1() # bind (command-line-args-left) command-line() # (condition-case ... . ((t (byte-code " ‡" ... 1)))) # bind (error-data) normal-top-level() # (condition-case ... . error) # (catch top-level ...) End of file or stream: #<buffer " *Compiler Input*"> Done make: *** [ruby-electric.elc] Error 1 I've attached the ruby-electric.el file that this occurs on. Thanks _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta