Solved it.  My ~/emacs/ folder has indeed been accreting cruft for nigh on
15 years.  I had something funky in there that must've been tickled by
org-mode.  It's gone from 45meg down to 3m and works just duckily.

Thanks everyone o/

- M

On Nov 29, 2007 12:20 PM, Michael Wilson <madwilliamflint@gmail.com> wrote:

> But it doesn't strike me that byte compiling or not is the problem.  I
> tried without it first.  My fear is that I've accumulated so much cruft in
> my ~/emacs/. folder that there's a really nasty chemical reaction going on
> in there.
>
>
> On Nov 29, 2007 12:17 PM, Tim O'Callaghan <tim.ocallaghan@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I have a similar setup. I just don't bother byte compiling them.
> >
> > It takes longer to start up, but it makes my site lisp usable under
> > Emacs.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Tim.
> >
> >
> > On 29/11/2007, Michael Wilson <madwilliamflint@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Good afternoon,
> > >
> > > Is there a manual install procedure I can use to get org-mode up and
> > running
> > > on xemacs on win xp?  I've tried byte-compiling things and dropping
> > them in
> > > my load path (with the couple additional files in .\xemacs\), adding
> > the
> > > requisite few lines in .emacs (a couple key hooks, ".org" mapping,
> > (require
> > > org-install) etc.)
> > >
> > > And when I try to M-x org-mode on an empty "stuff.org" file I get:
> > >
> > >                   "Wrong number of arguments: #<subr
> > make-char-table>,2"
> > >
> > > which is where I get stuck.  Is the makefile doing anything more
> > exotic than
> > > byte compiling and moving the elisp files?
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > >
> > > - M
> > >
> > >
> > >
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