Michael Sperber <sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: sb> The way is to put together a custom dumped-lisp.el somewhere in the sb> load-path. It should work for the file to be in site-lisp/ if sb> site-lisp is configured into your XEmacs, or into the sb> xemacs-packages/lisp/ directory. Not picking up a dumped-lisp.el site-lisp/ is fine. That could lead to unexpected behavior. Does it also not pick up dumped-lisp from xemacs-packages/lisp/? That's inconvenient -- it's the only place we're essentially guaranteeing won't be overwritten by a dumped-lisp.el in a package.