Consider my previous email a complaint: 'xemacs-21.2 -vanilla' produces the following lisp backtrace when I click on the "Load .emacs" button. Signaling: (wrong-number-of-arguments #<compiled-function nil "...(31)" [user-init-file paths-construct-path "~" user-init-file-base load t inhibit-default-init nil inhibit-startup-message "default"] 5 794380> 1) load-user-init-file("acs") (progn (delete-menu-item (quote ...)) (load-user-init-file (user-login-name))) ) eval((progn (delete-menu-item (quote ...)) (load-user-init-file (user-login-name)))) - vin APA> Handling of user-init-* is an open issue which was discussed starting at APA> http://www.xemacs.org/list-archives/xemacs-beta/9908/msg00772.html Michael> What's open about it? There was design, discussion, redesign, Michael> implementation, and agreement, and so far, noone has complained.