Re: How do I load from /usr/share/xemacs/* with xemacs-21.5.26 ?

Manfred> Xemacs seems to run ok, but I don't know how to teach it Manfred> to load all the modules that I normally use. This is currently in flux (I think Vin and Mike have pretty much completed their work, so it will probably stabilize except for bug fixes from now on). If you are going to use 21.5.x, you should follow xemacs-beta because a lot of this is not going to be well-documented[1] for a while. Similar changes are likely to be rather frequent over the next few months. Manfred> Shouldn't there be a base directory I can set so that all Manfred> packages/modules under it can be found? Yes. Note that in XEmacs, "package" almost always means a collection of Lisp libraries, but "module" usually means a DSO (aka DLL). Your best option is to reconfigure adding --with-system-packages=/usr/share/xemacs to any other options you use. You could also put a symlink ls -s /usr/share/xemacs /usr/local/lib/xemacs or ls -s /usr/share/xemacs/* /usr/local/lib/xemacs/ I don't think there is a way to set it in Lisp (it wouldn't be useful most of the time because it normally needs to be done at init time), but you can also start XEmacs with EMACSLATEPACKAGES=/usr/share/xemacs set in the OS environment. All of this is documented in the info node "Startup Paths". (Info-goto-node "(xemacs)Startup Paths") <= C-x C-e here If you have some time to read and review it, we'd love to hear your questions and comments! Footnotes: [1] "Well-documented" doesn't just mean clear docstrings and manual entries exist, it also means that the users normally find them themselves.:-) That's impossible to do well until you've got user feedback about where they expected such documents to be. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.