Michael Sperber <sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de&gt; writes: ... Olivier> Just learning, what was wrong with these macros that the Olivier> change solves? Was the problem technical or philosophical? Yup. Yup. *Real* easy and real dangerous. The usage in XEmacs wasn't so bad as the macros were used safely, but they set a horrible example we could come to regret for a long time to come. I was the driving force behind behind introducing this into XEmacs in the first place. I have since repented.