sperber(a)Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.De (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes: Three reasons 1. To use an XEmacs setup maintained by another user. This could be solved by a buch of symlinks. Note however that a lot users have forgotten that they use XEmacs in this way, i.e. they have an alias xemacs -u other-user (This is a PITA if you are trying to help them). 2. A lot our shared working directories have a user associated with them. Some people use -u gruppe3 as substitute of 'themes' when working with files contained therein. 3. It nice to be able to try somebody else's setup when helping them with a problem without touching them. You mean with respect to the eary, late, last stuff? Jan P.S. You gain one point for the fact that gnus gets this wrong too.