What does this shit do in XEmacs? DEFVAR_BOOL ("enable-multibyte-characters", &enable_multibyte_characters /* Non-nil means the buffer contents are regarded as multi-byte form of characters, not a binary code. This affects the display, file I/O, and behaviors of various editing commands. Setting this to nil does not do anything. */ ); enable_multibyte_characters = 1; If it is for "compatibility" with broken FSFmacs mule code, then either the code should be fixed, or it should be moved to obsolete.el... -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- You have an unusual magnetic personality. Don't walk too close to metal objects which are not fastened down.