> So, to summarize, with the default settings Emacs 19 is NOT caught by > this sample bomb. What about emacs 18 though? I just tried out the script and it worked. At least, I think it worked. It just deleted itself. No text was inserted into the buffer nor was anything echoed. I don't know enough (I know next to nothing) about elisp to understand what the script is supposed to do (how does that go, Lost In a S(?) of Paraentheses?). After I added "(setq inhibit-local-variables t)" to my .emacs file I was prompted before the script executed. This behavior was not common knowledge to me and I'm a little disconcerted that it is not well documented (if it is at all). MikeB