If you use desktop.el to save xemacs sessions, and have HTML files open when you quit, then on the following session psgml-html will get loaded, ask you for your mailing address, and trash your custom file. I don't know quite what to do about this; it's not really psgml-html's fault, it's user-mail-address that's doing the dirty deed. I suspect this has "suddenly" become a problem because of 2001-04-17 Didier Verna <didier(a)xemacs.org&gt; * startup.el (load-user-init-file): define `custom-file' before loading the user's init file. (which actually only got in to 21.4 in 21.4.4, 2001-07-28). Before that, custom-file was nil at this point, so no harm could be done (I think, not yet tested). I will test this and probably revert for 21.4.7 if reversion prevents the problem. I suggest reverting in 21.5, too, unless a real fix can developed _really_ fast. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.