The minor mode menu is chaotic. The following patch sorts the menu alphabetically. 1998-05-01 SL Baur <steve(a)altair.xemacs.org&gt; * modeline.el (modeline-minor-mode-menu): Alphabetize the minor mode menu. Index: lisp/modeline.el =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/xemacs/xemacs-20.0/lisp/modeline.el,v retrieving revision 1.13 diff -u -r1.13 modeline.el --- lisp/modeline.el 1998/05/01 01:10:51 1.13 +++ lisp/modeline.el 1998/05/01 22:07:26 ＠＠ -419,7 +419,8 ＠＠ (popup-menu-and-execute-in-window (cons "Minor Mode Toggles" - (delq nil (mapcar + (sort + (delq nil (mapcar #'(lambda (x) (let* ((toggle-sym (car x)) (toggle-fun (or (get toggle-sym ＠＠ -446,7 +447,9 ＠＠ :style 'toggle :selected (and (boundp toggle-sym) toggle-sym))))) - minor-mode-alist))) + minor-mode-alist)) + (lambda (e1 e2) + (string< (aref e1 0) (aref e2 0))))) event))) (defvar modeline-minor-mode-map (make-sparse-keymap 'modeline-minor-mode-map)