Greg> Ick. What do you propose? I could make the interactive Greg> specification "string" rather than "directory" but then you Greg> don't get filename completion even when it is local. M-x Greg> set-variable RET cvs-cvsroot will work. Either way, setting Greg> cvs-cvsroot is evil; do you really want/need to do that? Hi Greg, I thought about this for a while: D -- Directory name. f -- Existing file name. F -- Possibly nonexistent file name. How about using (interactive "F")? I haven't found a spec for possibly non-existent directory. That's why I propose a spec of possibly non-existent file. It gives us name completion and still lets you force an invalid path like :server:aichner＠engine:/u/aichner/cvsroot It's probably a good idea to check whether the path is a directory (as opposed to file) if it's a valid path. How does that sound? Do you want a patch for that? Regards, Adrian Greg> Greg APA> Hello Greg, M-x cvs-change-cvsroot RET APA> :server:aichner＠engine:/u/aichner/cvsroot RET leads (No APA> match)