sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes: Micheal, is it possible to change the underlying implementation and Lisp API, but still have `-u' work? For instance, we could have a `user-startup-directory' that defaults, say, to "~/", and which `xemacs -u joe' would set to "~joe/", etc. Then correct startup code would do things like: (expand-file-name ".gnus" user-startup-directory) A note for Didier and Kyle: please note that Michael is right about the code already not using `-u' correctly. I'm fairly certain that it never worked right with Gnus. Even if we don't lose the feature, it could certainly stand changing.