>> 
>> Does anyone have any experience running the emacs-Lisp interface of
>> ACL6 under xemacs?
>> 
>> I have xemacs 21.1, which has
>> 
>>   emacs-version => "21.1 (patch 14) \"Cuyahoga Valley\" XEmacs Lucid"
>> 
>> I get an error upon startup, an error which looks like it occurs
>> during parsing of the above string.  

I recall this being a problem with very old versions of the emacs-lisp
interface.  Which version do you have?  Eval
fi:emacs-lisp-interface-version in the *scratch* buffer and send us
the result.

>> ELI continues past the error, but
>> this is the sort of thing I like to correct or at least paste over for 
>> the benefit of concerned onlookers.
>> 
>> Since the manual states
>> 
>>   The most common cause of other strange or unexplained behavior is
>>   using the Emacs-Lisp interface with a version of Emacs other than
>>   the one distributed with Allegro CL. The Emacs-Lisp interface is
>>   only supported on that specific version.
>> 
>> I know I can't get any support from Franz on this one.

I tried and failed to find an spr# on this subject.  Can you be more
specific?

>> Everything is fine on GNU Emacs 19.34.1 which has
>> 
>>   emacs-version => "19.34.1"
>> 
>> so I suspect this comes from xemacs' baroque syntax for emacs-version.
>> Accordingly, I would think the appropriate fix is to patch xemacs'
>> implementation of emacs-version to nuke some of the extraneous
>> verbiage, at least locally while ELI is getting started.  If someone
>> else has been here before, please let me know how you handled it.
>> 
>> Andrew
>> 
>> 

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