If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger, please include the output from the following gdb commands: `bt full' and `xbacktrace'. If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file /usr/local/share/emacs/23.0.60/etc/DEBUG for instructions. In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.4) of 2009-01-05 on mcbain Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10502000 configured using `configure '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--prefix=/usr/local'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Diff Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t diff-auto-refine-mode: t show-paren-mode: t global-auto-revert-mode: t delete-selection-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t global-auto-composition-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: C-x b e d i f e i n C-x v = C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-n C-n C-x C-n M-x d i f f - C-g M-x c u s t o m - a p v c - d i C-g M-x c u c s t o s s t o m i - v a r v c - = d i f s w C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-p C-e C-n C-e C-, C-, C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-p C-p C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-e C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-p C-p C-, C-, 3 C-n - d C-p C-f C-f 2 - d u C-n C-a C-. C-b 1 C-x C-b C-x v = C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-x C-w / t m p / e d i f f - i n i t . e l . p a t c h M-x e m a c s - b u f g r e r e p o r t - e m Recent messages: To install your edits, invoke [State] and choose the Set operation [2 times] M-TAB: complete field; RET: enter value Wrote /home/dave/elisp/custom.el Compiling /home/dave/elisp/custom.el...done Wrote /home/dave/elisp/custom.elc Finding changes in /home/dave/src/emacs/lisp/ediff-init.el...done Wrote /tmp/ediff-init.el.patch Making completion list... Scanning for dabbrevs...100% [2 times] Mark deactivated -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com