The function 'do-applescript' is unavailable in the Mac OS X build. See the attached file 'trying_to_execute_do-applescript.pdf' which contains a snapshot of an Emacs window showing a Lisp expression in the '*scratch*' buffer and the resulting Lisp error in the '*Backtrace*' buffer. Also see the attached file 'where_is_do-applescript.pdf' which contains a snapshot of an Emacs window showing the description of the function 'do-applescript' in the '*info*' buffer and the completions for 'M-x do-' in the '*Completions*' buffer. In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (i386-apple-darwin8.10.1, *Step 9.0rc3) of 2007-11-25 on hermes.mshome.net configured using `configure '--with-ns' '--without-x' '--prefix=/Users/arobert/src/EmacsApp/emacs/nextstep/build/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources' '--exec_prefix=/Users/arobert/src/EmacsApp/emacs/nextstep/build/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS' '--libexecdir=/Users/arobert/src/EmacsApp/emacs/nextstep/build/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec' '--with-pop' '--enable-font-backend' '--without-freetype' 'CC=gcc-4.0' 'CFLAGS=-g -O3 -arch ppc -arch i386'' 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: nil value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: nil default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: tooltip-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-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: "*Buffer List*" "scrapbook" s-x "*scratch*" s-v \ n C-x C-e C-x C-e Recent messages: Mark set [2 times] call-interactively: Beginning of buffer Auto-saving... Mark set Entering debugger... [2 times] Ralph A. Hicks __________________________________________________________________ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/