This problem was reported to me by a customer of UKS and I fixed it with the following solution. ARMedslack has this fix included. -- sw - 26-Jun-04 As from Slackware 9.1, it's not possible to have a fully working emacs with only the emacs-nox package. You need to copy two files from the main emacs .tgz into the -nox package then rebuild the nox package. These are the two files you need (version dependent): usr/libexec/emacs/21.3/i486-slackware-linux/fns-21.3.1.el usr/libexec/emacs/21.3/i486-slackware-linux/fns-21.3.2.el # mkdir new-nox # cd new-nox # tar pzxf ../emacs-nox*.tgz # tar pzxf ../emacs-21*.tgz usr/libexec/emacs/2*/*slack*/fns-*.el # makepkg -l y -c n ../emacs-nox-21.3-i486-2.tgz # less ../emacs-nox-21.3-i486-2.tgz # check you haven't broken everything