Sean> Who provides term? I need it to compile browse-url.el from Sean> the mail-lib package. (eval-when-compile (require 'term)) Sean> Is there any way to find out who provides a package if I do Sean> not have all the packages installed? In theory package-get-base.el provides this information. However, I don't see how to get it from the package-user-interface. A second problem is that although many packages list many provided symbols, eterm only lists 'eterm. This may be a bug? -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."

Stephen J. Turnbull writes: M-x package-get-package-provider , in theory (but not in this case, because of the problem below). I think so, since term.el does (provide 'term), that should be listed in the package index. Robert -- The above are my opinions, and my opinions only.