one of the primary things i want to add to 21.5 is "behaviors". some support is already there but i want to generalize it and get all packages encompassed in it. the basic idea is that it provides a uniform interface onto enabling and disabling a behavior (usually a package), setting the associated variables, getting help as to how the behavior works, etc. this would be done through a simple menu-oriented system. this makes is very easy for users to try out what's out there, which now is just utter chaos. i'm in the process of adding `define-behavior' statements [bracketed with if fboundp, don't worry] for all the packages in `edit-utils'. there's a snafu, though: many of the packages are enabled merely by loading, and can't be disabled. even for those that provide an explicit enable function, there's often no disable function. i need help modifying these packages to provide these enable and disable functions. it doesn't matter exactly what they're called, just that they do the work. you might consider synching up to the latest released version while you're at it, to see if those functions got written for you already. also, you should use `advice' whenever possible to advise functions rather than homegrown hacks like just changing the functions and storing the old value in a variable. anyone willing to help? any contributions would be greatly appreciated and would go a long way towards making XEmacs a far more useful and user-friendly program. another possible project, for someone with more energy: create an advice-like system for key bindings. it should simplify and stabilize the process of packages modifying key bindings. just like for the regular advice, they should be able to call the original binding from their modified routine, and all the nastiness of de-installation should be taken care of. [e.g. if package a advises a key, and then package b advises the same key, then b will have advised a's advising of the key. if package a then uninstalls, the key should be left with b advising the original definition.]