Apologies for the totally newbie question that touches gforth but isn't necessarily gforth specific.
I have recently updated my Emacs setup to Emacs 24.3 on Ubuntu 12.4. I had previously installed gforth 7.0 from Ubuntu distribution and updated that to gforth 7.2 and made Emacs aware of gforth by adding the following to my .emacs ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; These lines allow GFORTH to be run under Emacs. ;; See the following (three lines below are actually one URL) ;; http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/ ;; forth/gforth/Docs-html/ ;; Installing-gforth_002eel.html#Installing-gforth_002eel (autoload 'forth-mode "gforth.el") (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.fs\\'" . forth-mode) auto-mode-alist)) (autoload 'forth-block-mode "gforth.el") (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.fb\\'" . forth-block-mode) auto-mode-alist)) (add-hook 'forth-mode-hook (function (lambda () ;; customize variables here: (setq forth-indent-level 3) (setq forth-minor-indent-level 1) (setq forth-hilight-level 3) ))) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Now, in Emacs, after invoking `M-x run-forth' the following appears in the Emacs minibuffer: "Source file `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-list/gforth.el' newer than byte-compiled file" This doesn't seem too serious but from this I don't know if Emacs 24.3 is using the older byte-compiled file or the source, and if byte-compiling the newer source will do anything undesirable vis-a-vis the byte-compiled older gforth.el Best wishes, _don
