It's not super-important, but I'd like to understand why this patch fixes things. You are talking about the editres patch Benson found, right? I noticed it was for a 1.0.3 version of editres IIRC, not the latest 1.0.5. I agree--that I would like to understand why this fixes things. Latest steps we did here: 1. system with old editres, didn't work. 2. applied patch and recompiled 3. now it works. 4. to double-check, remove patch, and recompile. 5. check again, and old copy of editres works. (but shouldn't as the patch is gone, double checked to be sure) Am I to think the patch is not making it happen, but the patching/recompiling process is???? So what exactly could about the patching process makes a difference (on two different Linux distributions, so far) I hope somebody can figure out what exactly did fix it. Steve _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta