I reported to the list a few weeks ago an intermittent 'mark inactive' error happening in bbdb-redisplay-records that started when I added ("Subject" (".*" last-subj 0 t)) to my bbdb-auto-notes-alist. I finally spent enough time ignoring everything but the top of the backtrace, and understand what is happening, but not why people haven't seen this before. bbdb-redisplay-records does (let ((p (point)) (m (mark))) then later does (if m (set-mark m))) obviously expecting (mark) to have returned nil in some circumstances. My emacs (19.22) apparently signals mark-inactive if the mark is inactive. Using (let ((p (point)) (m (if mark-active (mark) nil))) seems to solve the problem. Does this make sense? Diffs follow. *** 1.1 1994/04/01 23:44:10 --- bbdb-com.el 1994/04/01 23:46:44 *************** *** 202,208 **** "Regrinds the contents of the *BBDB* buffer, without scrolling. If possible, you should call bbdb-redisplay-one-record instead." (let ((p (point)) ! (m (mark))) (goto-char (window-start)) (let ((p2 (point))) (bbdb-display-records-1 bbdb-records) --- 202,208 ---- "Regrinds the contents of the *BBDB* buffer, without scrolling. If possible, you should call bbdb-redisplay-one-record instead." (let ((p (point)) ! (m (if mark-active (mark) nil))) (goto-char (window-start)) (let ((p2 (point))) (bbdb-display-records-1 bbdb-records)