Dear Handa San, Now, I meet the same thing that I reported to you two days ago. I debug it under gdb according to your guidance. I describe the problem as follows and sent you a sample file as well as the corresponding debug informations: ------------------------------------------------------- The description of my problem: First, the build parameters of Emacs Unicode 2 is as follows: =============== % cd EMACS_BUILD_TREE % ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --x-includes=/usr/include/X11 --x-libraries=/usr/lib/X11 \ --enable-font-backend --enable-asserts \ --enable-locallisppath=/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/etc/emacs-snapshot/site-start.d \ --enable-largefile --with-pop --with-sound \ --with-x=yes --with-x-toolkit=gtk --with-toolkit-scroll-bars \ --with-xpm --with-jpeg --with-tiff --with-gif --with-png \ --with-freetype --with-xft --with-xim \ --with-kerberos --with-kerberos5 --with-hesiod % make bootstrap =============== The following is my problem, may it be clear for you to understand: In my sample file *sample-file.mp*, which is metapost file. I open it· in emacs by using the meta-mode to edit it. The parameters I used to open Emacs is: *--enable-font-backend -fn "Dejavu Sans Mono-14"*. When I open the file, then I use the *M-%* and *!* to replace all the *-* (the character is in Half shape) into *-* (the character is in Full shape) or vice versa and do this thing again and again. I mean, if the there have *-* (half shape) in my file, I replace all of them into *-* (full shape) and then do the reverse replacements again and again; if there have *-* (full shape) in my file, I replace all of them into *-* (half shape) and then do the reverse replacements again and again. Then I find that after some circles, the Emacs will be aborting abnormally. The debug-results-gdb is my debug informations under gdb. ----------------------------------------------------- P.S. When I use the command *bt full*, I find so many debug informations, can I use a command to pipe these informations into a file. Thanks in advance. --- Hongyi Zhao (赵弘毅) GnuPG DSA: 0xD108493B 老子道德经:第二十八章 知其白,守其黑,为天下式。 为天下式,常德不忒,复归于无极。