PILCH Hartmut
What version of Emacs are you using? Are you using the SuSE package or have you compiled your own Emacs?
The SuSE package, GNU Emacs 21.3.1, compiled 2006-11-27 on tanajew, ^^^^^^
The emacs package which came with openSUSE 10.2 had the version number 21.3 (emacs-21.3-249.i586.rpm). Where did you get this emacs package from? Do you have any additional installation sources configured in YaST2?
installed here on a system on which 10.2 was installed from scratch (with formatting, no update).
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Mike FABIAN