This works fine. Finding the .el always searches down the load path and has nothing to do with where the corresponding autoloads file was found. If you change the autoload cookies in your local copy, however, the changes won't be seen. greg Karl> Karl> Also, what if I copy one .el file out of the system-wide directories, Karl> and put it in my ~/.xemacs/packages/** directory, in a mirror to the Karl> system-wide file, then make modifications and byte compile it. I Karl> want my version to be loaded rather than the site-wide version. Karl> Should I have to copy down the entire package, or just one file? Karl>