The good news: Since b28 I had no more of those gutter related crashes (also reported by others) that used to happen occasionally in the versions up to b27. The bad news: The redisplay of the buffer tabs was a kind of weird in b28 (from time to time there were buffer tabs left, even though the buffer already got killed). I didn't report this as Andy said he's aware of that redisplay issue and is still working on it. But now in b29, it looks even worse: When I cycle through the buffers using `switch-to-buffer' or the clickable modeline, only *one* (seldomly two) buffer tab(s) is/are displayed and the tab shown doesn't match the buffer I'm currently visiting, i.e. it's another buffer's tab. (I have set the buffers-tab variables to show up all buffers in the gutter and this worked in former betas.) Unfortunately, this behaviour makes the gutter almost unusable as you're only able to select *one* other buffer than the current ... :-( And this is really a great pity because meanwhile I got used to the gutter and like it a lot - as long as it works! Anyone else having similar problems? Markus P.S.: If of any use with regard to this topic, the output of `describe-installation': uname -a: Linux altmark 2.2.13 #2 Mon Jan 10 00:23:20 CET 2000 i686 unknown ./configure '--site-includes=/usr/local/include' '--site-libraries=/usr/local/lib' '--cflags=-O3' '--debug=no' '--error-checking=none' XEmacs 21.2-b29 "Hestia" configured for `i686-pc-linux'. Where should the build process find the source code? /build/xemacs/xemacs-21.2/xemacs What installation prefix should install use? /usr/local What operating system and machine description files should XEmacs use? `s/linux.h' and `m/intel386.h' What compiler should XEmacs be built with? gcc -O3 Should XEmacs use the GNU version of malloc? yes (Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library.) Should XEmacs use the relocating allocator for buffers? no What window system should XEmacs use? x11 Where do we find X Windows header files? /usr/X11/include Where do we find X Windows libraries? /usr/X11/lib Additional header files: /usr/local/include Additional libraries: /usr/local/lib Athena library to link: Xaw Athena header include path: X11/Xaw Compiling in support for XAUTH. Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG image handling. Compiling in support for (builtin) GIF image handling. Compiling in support for JPEG image handling. Compiling in support for TIFF image handling. Compiling in native sound support. Compiling in support for Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESD). Compiling in support for Berkeley DB. Compiling in support for GNU DBM. Compiling in support for LDAP. Compiling in support for ncurses. Compiling in support for GPM (General Purpose Mouse). Compiling in support for proper WM_COMMAND handling. Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. Using Athena native widgets. Using Athena dialog boxes. Compiling in dynamic shared object module support. movemail will use "dot-locking" for locking mail spool files.