Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 02 2009, Dave Goldberg wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately I cannot report the same success.  I use XEmacs:
>>
>> "XEmacs 21.4 (patch 21) \"Educational Television\" [Lucid] (x86_64-unknown-linux, Mule) of Tue Jan  6 2009 on blackbird"
>
> Does anyone have an idea what is different in XEmacs?

I'll leave it for an XEmacs user to fix, but this should revert to the
previous situation where you have to set the variable explicitly for
XEmacs.