Hi, I've sent a bug report to <efs-bugs(a)hplb.hpl.hp.com&gt; months ago, but I got no response. So, I'll send it again. If a user put the line (require 'efs) in the startup file rather than (require 'efs-auto), or if a user actually run efs for the remote file systems first, `eval-after-load' won't work if it is written in a Lisp file. Here's an example: (let* ((default-directory "/tmp/") (load-path (cons default-directory load-path)) (features (delq 'foo (delq 'bar features)))) (if (featurep 'xemacs) (require 'efs) (require 'ange-ftp)) (with-temp-file "foo.el" (insert "\ \(eval-after-load \"bar\" '(message \"The after-load form is evaluated successfully\")) \(provide 'foo) ")) (with-temp-file "bar.el" (insert "\ \(provide 'bar) ")) (require 'foo) (require 'bar) (assoc "bar" after-load-alist)) => nil After evaluating this form, the after-load form for "bar" has not been registered in `after-load-alist' and you may not see the "successful" message. I can find similar cases in many Lisp programs, and let me say all those programs might not work. I've fixed it by myself, it isn't a smart solution, though: ftp://ftp.jpl.org/xemacs/packages/efs-1.29-pkg-after-load.patch.gz -- Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka(a)jpl.org&gt;