Currently the xemacs package of vm contains in vm-autoloads.el: (autoload (quote vm-increment) "vm-macro" nil nil t) and vm-increment is a macro. Is this ok? I've encountered a situation where some vm files have been recompiled (without preloading vm-macro) and starting vm results in: Invalid function: (macro . #<compiled-function (&rest forms) "...(16)" [let ((vm-sbe-buffer (current-buffer))) unwind-protect progn forms (and (not (eq vm-sbe-buffer (current-buffer))) (buffer-name vm-sbe-buffer) (set-buffer vm-sbe-buffer))] 5>) Loading vm-macro...done Loading vm-macro... What do you think? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger aj(a)suse.de aj(a)arthur.rhein-neckar.de