"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: Please reconsider or really "refrase". Steve was just trying to recreate the AucTeX installation as done by the AucTex makefile. No. But AucTeX has its own lisp searching mechanism that looks in (concat TeX-lisp-directory "/style") etc. Yes, that means there are .el files in etc. Hé, this is Lisp, so data looks like code. Let's not mess with that, it's been that way for ages. IMHO the reasonable fix is delete the setq from tex-site altogether! The default in tex.el looks just fine to me. Jan