This doesn't belong on xemacs-patches, moving to xemacs-beta. Christoph> Hm, are you kidding? The current _XEmacs_ (yes X) Christoph> version also uses the overlay function, it just forgot Christoph> the require. Where? Grep finds only a few mentions of it, in only a very few files, in packages and in core. Looks to me like we've been quite successful in obsoleting the API, except in JDE. All other mentions are compatibility layers, except maybe for a use in cus-edit.el (which would be evidence for the prosecution ;-). -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.