APA> what is the right way to fix these lisp load-path shadowings? I would say that "timer" and "overlay" belong to fsf-compat. APA> /export/home/tmp/packages-21.0/lisp/edit-utils/timer hides /export/home/tmp/packages-21.0/lisp/fsf-compat/timer (locate-library "timer") => "/usr/people/remek/lib/xemacs/packages/lisp/fsf-compat/timer.elc" APA> /export/home/tmp/packages-21.0/lisp/fsf-compat/overlay hides /export/home/tmp/packages-21.0/lisp/xemacs-base/overlay (locate-library "overlay") => "/usr/people/remek/lib/xemacs/packages/lisp/fsf-compat/overlay.elc" Can't help you with these, though. Can vc and vc-cc packages co-exist peacefully? APA> /export/home/tmp/packages-21.0/lisp/vc/vc hides /export/home/tmp/packages-21.0/lisp/vc-cc/vc APA> /export/home/tmp/packages-21.0/lisp/vc/vc-hooks hides /export/home/tmp/packages-21.0/lisp/vc-cc/vc-hooks Remek -- Remek Trzaska http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/remek Research Scientist Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, NY