Jan> Adrian Aichner <aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com&gt; writes: Greg> Ick. What do you propose? I could make the interactive Greg> specification "string" rather than "directory" but then you Greg> don't get filename completion even when it is local. M-x Greg> set-variable RET cvs-cvsroot will work. Either way, setting Greg> cvs-cvsroot is evil; do you really want/need to do that? Jan> Use the (interactive FORM ) declaration to define your own Jan> completing read. Hello Jan, my investigations of today lead me to believe that pcl-cvs can only handle local CVS roots. I modified the interactive spec only to get an error in cvs-<something>-pp Is anybody here using pcl-cvs-version "R-2_0-Beta_2" successfully with non-local repositories? Regards, Adrian Jan> Like this (untested) Jan> (interactive (list (completing-read "CVSroot:" (lambda Jan> (str) (unless (string-match ":" str) ;; Remote CVS Jan> (file-name-completion str)))))) Jan> or you want to call read-file-name-1