[resending due to nameserver problems] I have put a new self-mode.el, and an associated self.el (run self in an Emacs buffer) in contrib as self-mode.shar.Z. Important addition to self-mode.el is ESC C-x (the difference betwen C-x ESC and ESC C-x should not exist in the presense of a meta-key, but ESC C-x is the traditional key). self-send-object sends the current `object' to the inferior self. This works by looking for the previous ^|)$ and sending everything after that until the next ^|)$ to a temporary file and doing a _RunScript on it.

While I've got your attention, two things:

a) I was hoping that 2.0 would eliminate the problem of putting a '.' at the end of a top-level object. The Pascal idea that ';' seperates objects is nice, but I prefer to be able to put ';' in anywhere like it C. Self doesn't even let me consistently put a '.' after every object. (I speak of ';' metaphorically.)

b) Can the current directory please be either the directory that the snapshot was invoked from, or the directory that the snapshot was found in? (prefer the former) I don't like having my searchPath/load stuff keep messing up when I change my mind about which part is my `SELF_WORKING_DIR', etc.. (at least, there seems to be some dependancy)

Thanks.

p.s: X works now thanks to James. Wee! Yahoo! :L-) p.p.s: VMS line editors suck.