Philip Aston <philipa(a)parallax.co.uk&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: Oops. The code has been changed and the documentation needs updating. To get the same effects as 20.4[1] do something like: (when (featurep 'tooltalk) (load "tooltalk-macros") (load "tooltalk-util") (load "tooltalk-init")) (when (featurep 'sparcworks) (load "sunpro-init") (load "ring") (load "comint") (load "annotations")) in .emacs. To get exactly the same effect as in 20.4, where these packages are dumped with the binary, add them to site-packages as documented in site-load.el. Footnotes: [1] Except for cc-mode which has been severely fucked up since 20.4 and should no longer be dumped with XEmacs.