Solved it.  My ~/emacs/ folder has indeed been accreting cruft for nigh on 15 years.  I had something funky in there that must've been tickled by org-mode.  It's gone from 45meg down to 3m and works just duckily.

Thanks everyone o/

- M

On Nov 29, 2007 12:20 PM, Michael Wilson <madwilliamflint@gmail.com> wrote:
But it doesn't strike me that byte compiling or not is the problem.  I tried without it first.  My fear is that I've accumulated so much cruft in my ~/emacs/. folder that there's a really nasty chemical reaction going on in there.


On Nov 29, 2007 12:17 PM, Tim O'Callaghan <tim.ocallaghan@gmail.com> wrote:
I have a similar setup. I just don't bother byte compiling them.

It takes longer to start up, but it makes my site lisp usable under Emacs.

Regards,

Tim.


On 29/11/2007, Michael Wilson <madwilliamflint@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good afternoon,
>
> Is there a manual install procedure I can use to get org-mode up and running
> on xemacs on win xp?  I've tried byte-compiling things and dropping them in
> my load path (with the couple additional files in .\xemacs\), adding the
> requisite few lines in .emacs (a couple key hooks, ".org" mapping, (require
> org-install) etc.)
>
> And when I try to M-x org-mode on an empty "stuff.org" file I get:
>
>                   "Wrong number of arguments: #<subr make-char-table>,2"
>
> which is where I get stuck.  Is the makefile doing anything more exotic than
> byte compiling and moving the elisp files?
>
> TIA,
>
> - M
>
>
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