zhaoway> which I hope to run *after* custom.el because otherwise zhaoway> this will have no effects. Please how could I¡¡achieve zhaoway> this in XEmacs CVS Beta? Sorry I can't figure it out zhaoway> myself. :) I forget the exact recipe, but basically what you do is rename the file custom.el, and then use (load (expand-file-name "~/.xemacs/custom.el")) at an appropriate point in ~/.xemacs/init.el. this needs to be documented, I think.... -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."