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From: Skip Montanaro <skip@automatrix.com>
To: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org
Subject: Forms mode still broken in 20.3-15

In XEmacs 20.3 "Berlin" [Lucid] (i386-pc-bsdi2.1) of Tue Jul 29 1997 on dolphin.automatrix.com

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I reported in comp.emacs.xemacs that forms-mode is broken in XEmacs
19.15.  I got 20.3-15 installed this morning and tried again.  I
renamed ~/.emacs, ~/emacs (my personal ELisp directory), ~/.xemacs and 
~/.xemacs-options to insure I wasn't picking up any non-standard
packages.  I invoked XEmacs as "xemacs -q".  The only local directory
in my load-path is /usr/local/lib/xemacs/site-lisp, which I confirmed
is empty.

I then executed forms-find-file on the forms-d2.el file that is
distributed in .../lisp/utils/forms-d2.el.  I still get a "Buffer is
read-only" error.  (See below.)  I tried to generate a backtrace, but
even with stack-trace-on-error set to t, all I got was a beep and a
message.  (Did something change with how that variable works between
v19 and v20?)

Can someone else confirm this result?  I was led to believe that
forms-mode was working again in XEmacs 20.x.  That suggests that I
have some cruft being picked up somewhere from my environment and that
someone out there in beta-land should be able to visit that test file
successfully.  Please let me know either way.  If nobody else can
visit it successfully, then I'll poke around looking for an XEmacs
bug.  If nobody else has a problem I'll keep looking in my environment
for clues.

Thanks,

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Recent input:
r m d BS s - f i n d - e BS f TAB RET s r c / x e m 
TAB 2 0 TAB / l s BS i s TAB u t TAB f o r m s TAB 
- d TAB w TAB BS e TAB RET C-x k RET ESC x r e p o 
r t TAB RET F o r m s SPC m o d e SPC s t i l l SPC 
b r o k e n SPC i n SPC 2 0 . 3 - 1 5 RET

Recent messages:
Loading forms...
Loading forms...done
Making completion list...
Buffer is read-only: #<buffer "forms-d2.el">
Loading emacsbug...
Loading emacsbug...done
Loading mail-abbrevs...
Loading mail-abbrevs...done
Parsing /home/dolphin/skip/.mailrc...
Parsing /home/dolphin/skip/.mailrc... done

load-path:

("/usr/local/lib/xemacs/site-lisp"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/apel/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/bytecomp/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/calendar/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/cc-mode/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/cl/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/comint/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/custom/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/edebug/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/ediff/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/efs/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/egg/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/electric/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/emulators/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/eos/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/eterm/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/games/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/gnats/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/hm--html-menus/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/hyperbole/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/ilisp/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/iso/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/its/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/language/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/locale/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/mailcrypt/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/mel/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/mh-e/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/modes/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/mu/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/mule/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/oobr/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/packages/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/pcl-cvs/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/prim/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/psgml/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/rmail/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/sunpro/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/term/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/tl/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/tm/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/tooltalk/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/utils/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/viper/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/vm/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/w3/"
 "/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.3-b15/lisp/x11/")

