In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, GTK+ Version 2.12.11) of 2008-09-26 on localhost Windowing system distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40400000 configured using `configure '--without-sound' '--without-pop' '-- with-dbus' '--with-libotf' '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/ Application Support/Emacs/calendar23:/Library/Application Support/ Emacs/caml:/Library/Application Support/Emacs:/sw/share/emacs21/site- lisp/elib' 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/sw/lib/xft2/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/ fontconfig2/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/freetype219/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/ pango-ft219/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/qt4-x11/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/ system-openssl/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/lib/pkgconfig:/sw/share/pkgconfig:/ usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib/pkgconfig' 'CFLAGS=-Wno-pointer-sign -bind_at_load -H -pipe -fPIC -mcpu=7450 - mtune=7450 -fast -mpim-altivec -ftree-vectorize -foptimize-register- move -freorder-blocks -freorder-blocks-and-partition -fthread-jumps - fpeephole -fno-crossjumping' 'CPPFLAGS=-no-cpp-precomp' 'LDFLAGS=- bind_at_load -dead_strip -multiply_defined suppress -L/sw/lib/ncurses'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8 value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: show-paren-mode: t display-time-mode: t tooltip-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t global-auto-composition-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t -- Greetings Pete Klingon function calls do not have "parameters" - they have "arguments"- and they ALWAYS WIN THEM.