Kyle Jones <kyle_jones(a)wonderworks.com&gt; writes: That's what the autoload stuff used to do. The only difference between: ;;;###autoload (define-key ...) and: ;;;###autoload (define-key ...) is that the latter gets run at dump-time, while the former gets run both and dump-time and load-time. The packages have changed this a bit because autoloads are no longer dumped with XEmacs, but they are run before `.emacs' is, so they serve effectively the same purpose. The only reason why I posted on the list instead of producing a patch was that I didn't have the latest `vc-hooks.el' handy (I'm moving to another machine, so all my customizations are in a state of flux.)