intro: "MS" == Michael Sperber <sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de&gt; writes: Ben> btw in Arch XEmacs, written years ago [!], it says in Ben> http://www.xemacs.org/Architecting-XEmacs/init-files.html: Ben> The custom init file is where the custom package writes its Ben> options. This obviously needs to be a separate file from the standard Ben> init file. It should also be loaded before the init file rather than Ben> after, as is usually done currently, so that the init file can override Ben> these options if it wants to. Ben> imo we should just change the order and see what happens. MS> I have no objections, given Didier's testing. When I split the files, I MS> was merely trying to preserve the historical order. I load custom-file manually as the very first thing in my init file. And everything works fine. Nick. MS> -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla