Customize has added lines like '(column-number-mode t nil (simple)) to my ~/.emacs, but XEmacs doesn't provide simple so custom barfs on startup. Index: simple.el =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/lisp/simple.el,v retrieving revision 1.31.2.3 diff -u -p -u -w -r1.31.2.3 simple.el --- simple.el 2002/08/20 11:35:05 1.31.2.3 +++ simple.el 2002/10/11 04:56:16 ＠＠ -4575,4 +4575,6 ＠＠ The C code calls this periodically, righ The string is formatted using (apply #'format FORMAT ARGS)." (princ (apply #'format format args) 'external-debugging-output)) +(provide 'simple) + ;;; simple.el ends here