Okie, you're trying desperately to install htag and it's all going wrong. If after reading this you really can't solve it or you now have a patch then please mail me huggie@earth.li Here are some hints: 1. Turn on all the debugging options. $cfgdebug in htag.pl (copy locally if it's installed sitewide) $cfg{'nicedie'} = 1; as the first thing in your .htrc 2. If perl says something like: HtagPlugin version 0.5 required--this is only version 0.4 at ./htag.pl line 40. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./htag.pl line 40. Then your HtagPlugin.pm is too old and isn't the one required by htag.pl. I distribute them all together in the htag tarball but you might be hitting a problem with multiple copies of HtagPlugin.pm. Fix: put use lib '/path/to/HtagPlugin/'; at the top of htag.pl (copy it locally if it's installed sitewide). 3. You use htag in a script which replaces your editor but nicedie isn't working or for some unknown reason it's not stopping. You can log the whole output of htag to a file if nicedie isn't working for some reason (please report this to me if it isn't), using tee something like: htag.pl -m $1 |tee htaglog $EDITOR $1 4. If you're having problems with the merge plugin then you can define anal_merge_debug in that file (copy the plugins locally if it's sitewide and change your plugin dir). Beware that it really *is* anal debugging though and is very verbose.