Mats, my feeling is that a lot of what needs doing here involves subjective choices (e.g. what to call the merged file), where the most important thing is not exactly what they are, but that someone decides one way or the other. Basically, trust your judgement and make the changes. (And also, this is not ferro-concrete, we can change things if something goes drastically wrong!) Ar an ceathrú lá de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Mats Lidell: One user (if we exclude core GNU Emacs files) does: http://google.com/codesearch?as_q=\(require\+'syntax\)+file%3A\.el%24 Your go-mode.el doesn’t, as far as I can see. (Probably because GNU’s syntax.el is dumped.) Will the new syntax.el even work in 21.4 (which would be the point of putting it in packages)? I get the following when I byte-compile it under 21.4: Compiling file /Sources/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/syntax.el at Sat Jun 4 16:01:34 2011 While compiling the end of the data: ** The following functions are not known to be defined: replace-regexp-in-string, string-to-syntax, with-no-warnings, font-lock-fontify-syntactic-keywords-region, with-silent-modifications Certainly, compatibility is a good thing, and #'p-p-s is a basic function possibly used by many packages. -- ‘Iodine deficiency was endemic in parts of the UK until, through what has been described as “an unplanned and accidental public health triumph”, iodine was added to cattle feed to improve milk production in the 1930s.’ (EN Pearce, Lancet, June 2011) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta