APA> see APA> http://www.xemacs.org/cgi-bin/wilma_hiliter/xemacs-beta/9810/msg00789.htm... APA> for the last message in a recent thread on this issue. APA> I'm not aware that anybody is working on this problem. Thanks for the pointer. I remember this discussion, but I didn't follow it closely because it didn't affect me at the time. :-) I'll just keep doing what I have been doing then: append or push the paths as needed. If this is not going to be fixed, then the documentation about using customize should be removed before the final release. Ray