Jan> sperber(a)Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes: Jan> I know for a fact that users are using that feature. Jan> Three reasons Jan> 1. To use an XEmacs setup maintained by another user. This could be Jan> solved by a buch of symlinks. Note however that a lot users have Jan> forgotten that they use XEmacs in this way, i.e. they have an alias Jan> xemacs -u other-user (This is a PITA if you are trying to help Jan> them). That seems to be one reason to zap it so they notice. Jan> 2. A lot our shared working directories have a user associated with Jan> them. Some people use -u gruppe3 as substitute of 'themes' when Jan> working with files contained therein. Jan> 3. It nice to be able to try somebody else's setup when helping them Jan> with a problem without touching them. Well, these are reasonable. I still think that this is not worth the complexity, especially as 3. requires that the access permissions work out which, in PC secury networked setup, they don't. Jan> You mean with respect to the eary, late, last stuff? No, I mean the loadup staging. Parts of the code actually require to location of ~/.xemacs *before* even the command-line parsing has run which groks -u. Jan> P.S. You gain one point for the fact that gnus gets this wrong too. :-) -- Cheers =8-} Chipsy Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla