Vin> 'xemacs-21.2 -vanilla' produces the following lisp backtrace Vin> when I click on the "Load .emacs" button. Hello Vin, the menu entry callback function is broken: misc-user runs (progn (delete-menu-item (quote (Load .emacs))) (load-user-init-file (user-login-name))) `progn' is a built-in function Documentation: (progn BODY...): eval BODY forms sequentially and return value of last one. because `load-user-init-file' does not take an argument in XEmacs-21.2-b20. Handling of user-init-* is an open issue which was discussed starting at http://www.xemacs.org/list-archives/xemacs-beta/9908/msg00772.html An additional problem on native Windows is that (expand-file-name "~OTHER_USER") does not work either. Regards, Adrian Vin> Signaling: (wrong-number-of-arguments #<compiled-function nil "...(31)" [user-init-file paths-construct-path "~" user-init-file-base load t inhibit-default-init nil inhibit-startup-message "default"] 5 794380> 1) Vin> load-user-init-file("acs") Vin> (progn (delete-menu-item (quote ...)) (load-user-init-file (user-login-name))) Vin> ) Vin> eval((progn (delete-menu-item (quote ...)) (load-user-init-file (user-login-name)))) Vin> - vin