G'day all, I finally got the motivation to work out why auctex wasn't being loaded properly, now that all of my machines don't load it properly. If I didn't do anything, and just loaded a .tex file, then things were font-locked nicely, but pressing tab would just insert a tab. If I said "(require 'latex)" or "(require 'tex) (require 'latex)", then I would get: "Symbol's value as variable is void: TeX-auto-global" Eventually, I found out that I could open up each of tex-site.el, tex.el, and latex.el in turn in /usr/share/xemacs21/xemacs-packages/lisp/auctex/, and then evaluate the whole buffer. Running (load-library "tex-site") etc in turn gave me the Symbol void: TeX-auto-global error again. I was able to get around it by providing paths explicitly: (load-library "/usr/share/xemacs21/xemacs-packages/lisp/auctex/tex-site.el") (load-library "/usr/share/xemacs21/xemacs-packages/lisp/auctex/tex.elc") (load-library "/usr/share/xemacs21/xemacs-packages/lisp/auctex/latex.elc") If I neglect tex-site, then it falls down again. OK, so I now have a method that works for two different distributions of Linux -- debian and SuSE, with just path changes. But this is obviously not The Right Thing -- what exactly is missing from the default xemacs configuration? And how do I best fix it? The versions are: XEmacs 21.5 (beta18) "chestnut" (+CVS-20041021) [Lucid] (i386-suse-linux, Mule) of Tue Mar 22 2005 on mozart (SuSE, 9.3) and XEmacs 21.4 (patch 17) "Jumbo Shrimp" [Lucid] (i386-debian-linux) of Sat May 28 2005 on penell (Debian unstable, very up-to-date). Thanks. -- TimC All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -- Ernest Rutherford