jmiller(a)smart.net wrote: Yeah, that's it. It's a kludge, but I needed some way of obtaining package information after installing a package, and loading _pkg.el was it. The package installer also tries to read any autoloads.el file, but this only works if the package was never previously installed. No errors are raised if either load fails, but the error messages get stuffed into the " *Message-Log*" buffer. [ To go from a kludge to the "right thing", we really need an "uninstall.el" that undoes everything that autoloads.el does. ] -- Darryl Okahata darrylo(a)sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day.