*** E-Mail body has been placed on clipboard, please paste them here! *** I'm not sure of the precise actions but here's the general synopsis: I opened emacs using a startup script for Smallworld. The image opened & I opened a magik file and also dragged in one or two files. Somewhere along the line I noticed that when I went up to select 'Buffers' from the toolbar, all the menu options to the right of 'Edit' disappear. Then when I click inside either of the two buffer windows they re-appear just to disappear again when I move the cursor to the toolbar & click. Strange. The next time this occurs I will pay closer attention to the previous actions. Thank you, Ronnie In GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4) --cflags -Ic:/gnuwin32/include' 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: ENU locale-coding-system: cp1252 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: show-paren-mode: t encoded-kbd-mode: t tooltip-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t utf-translate-cjk-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t Recent input: y ? t h e n w r i t e ( a _ r e s u l t ) e n d i f SPC C-a C-k C-k C-k C-k M-p e n d i SPC f f SPC M-p M-p . w r i t e _ s t r i n g M-p 2 6 7 3 2 M-p M-p t r i g g e r p o l e j Recent messages: Mark set [2 times] Not sent (waiting for '_loop'). Not sent (waiting for '_endloop'). Not sent (waiting for '_endif'). [3 times] Not sent (waiting for '_endloop'). Loading the documentation ... Filtering Magik output...(29 chars) byte-code: Beginning of buffer [4 times] Quit Loading emacsbug...done