Hrvoje> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; writes: Hrvoje> What help do you need? Haven't I mailed an example of a Hrvoje> `startup-choose' function? I missed it. That's what I hoped for, I'll go find it. Hrvoje> I don't see a good reason to do this. Undocumented user customization features which are likely to shortly become documented features with a somewhat different interface are a pain in the neck to deal with. When users ask questions about .emacs, and I show them examples from my ~/.xemacs/init.el, they want to know why they can't clean up their home directories with a single .xemacs directory containing all of their junk pertaining to XEmacs. These days I don't lie and say "You can't" since one guy tried it anyway (with a different program) and it worked, then proceeded to break when the interface got publically released in a different form. Hrvoje> It would simply break setups of people on this list Hrvoje> without achieving any useful goal. Some setups are going to get broken anyway. If their init.el setup doesn't get broken, their personal packages will. Michael Sperber has said he will veto any arrangement with user-init-directory == personal- package-root. QED We obviously have a different evaluation of the relative likelihoods and importance of the different forms of breakage. I concede; you probably know more about both.