Michael - You might check, whether the patch has applied at runtime. [DG] Thanks for the pointers. C-h f tramp-compile-advice-add looks fine: tramp-compile-advice-add is a compiled Lisp function in ‘tramp-integration.el’. (tramp-compile-advice-add PROC) Don’t allow remote file operations while compiling. Remove looks fine also. 'C-h v compilation-start-hook' looks fine: compilation-start-hook is a variable defined in ‘compile.el’. Its value is (tramp-compile-advice-add) Original value was nil This variable may be risky if used as a file-local variable. You can customize this variable. Documentation: Hook run after starting a new compilation process. The hook is run with one argument, the new process. and compilation-finish-functions also looks as expected. Unfortunately, I am still seeing the hang upon clicking on an error message while the compilation continues. Sorry to report, but it may actually be worse than before, in that I am seeing some outright crashes of emacs, i.e. hangs where I cannot recover by pressing ctrl-G multiple times. I didn't see that previously with this issue, though of course it's possibly just a coincidence that I did not. JFYI, I am also seeing this error message displayed immediately after compilation commences: Error adjusting window size: (wrong number of arguments (0 . 1) 2) Best regards as always. Duncan.