I have narrowed down the problem I have been having with emacs 23 on a gentoo system to the app-emacs/table installation.  A copy of an incompatible version of table.el is installed in a directory, /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/table, referred to and loaded by code inserted in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-
gentoo.el, when I have enabled the loading of that file as suggested by the installation of independent emacs-related packages.&nbsp; <br><br>Removal of app-emacs/table removes the offending bit.&nbsp; I will file a bug if it appropriate to do so for a CVS emacs version?&nbsp; 
<br><br>I have filed bug number <a href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190635">190635</a> at <a href="http://bugs.gentoo.org">bugs.gentoo.org</a> about this problem.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/28/07, 
<b class="gmail_sendername">Alan E. Davis</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:lngndvs@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">lngndvs@gmail.com
</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I told you I would send another email from my post.&nbsp; So to avoid burdening you with more spam on your plate, I will avoid this unless you ask.&nbsp; I will get by without the <span name="st">table</span>.<span name="st">
el</span> version on Gentoo unless I discover some problem with the version w/ CVS GNU/emacs.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
<br><br>That being said, I received another message about code in the old version of <span name="st">table</span>.<span name="st">el</span>.&nbsp; I don&#39;t know whether that code if present in the version in the gentoo apps-emacs/
<span name="st">table</span> package.<br><br>Alan Davis<br><br>
Thank you for your response.&nbsp;&nbsp; <span><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alan E. Davis</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:lngndvs@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">


lngndvs@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thank you, Christian:<br><br>I have receivedemail that I&#39;ll forward to you separately concerning a difference in the code of <span name="st">table</span>.<span name="st">el</span>
 as included in CVS.<br><br><br>From my thread on emacs-help list:<br><br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span name="st">table</span>--deep-copy-rebind-keymap((keymap #^[nil nil keymap #^^[3 0 mark-sexp
<br><br>Looks like you have an old <span name="st">table</span>.<span name="st">el</span> in your load-path.&nbsp;&nbsp;The <span name="st">table</span>.<span name="st">
el</span> file<br>included in Emacs&#39;s CVS trunk has no such function.<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br></span><div><span>-- <br>Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan&nbsp;&nbsp;
<a href="mailto:lngndvs@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">lngndvs@gmail.com</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>&quot;An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ---Lord Raleigh (aka John William Strutt), or else his son,
</span></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="mailto:lngndvs@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">lngndvs@gmail.com
</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>&quot;An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ---Lord Raleigh (aka John William Strutt), or else his son,