The newly introduced *BUFFER-OFFSET* is not defined on SBCL. The problem is that swank-sbcl contains this: (defvar *buffer-offset*) but it must look like this (defvar *buffer-offset* nil) to actually introduce a variable. It is a little unclear to me exactly when the problem manifests itself. I have sofar only seen it in combination with compilation of systems in which a file had a superflous parenthesis. ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Christian Lynbech | christian #\@ defun #\. dk ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)