The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to comp.emacs.xemacs,comp.emacs as well. "Matthew O. Persico" <persicom(a)acedsl.com&gt; writes: I assume this comparison wants to check whether the point is in the minibuffer. You have several bugs there. * You're comparing a literal string to a symbol. That is always false, per definition. Lose the quote before buffer_name. * You misspelled buffer_name -- what you meant was buffer-name. Even so, buffer-name is a function rather than a variable, so you need to call it -- change buffer-name to (buffer-name). * You test for equality of identities (EQ) instead of equality of values (EQUAL). Change eq to equal for proper string comparison. The version that should do what the above was supposed to do is (untested): (equal " *Minibuf-0*" (buffer-name)) Still, it's probably not good style to hard-code internal buffer names like that. A more correct comparison might be: (eq (selected-window) (minibuffer-window)) Since I don't have the master code you're referring to, this is all untested. Hope it helps.

Glynn Clements <glynn(a)sensei.co.uk&gt; writes: None I can think of.