Tom Browder writes: No, except that if you want to merge the latest versions from upstream to yours, it will probably easier to find them in "fortran-modes". I just forgot that fortran-modes was a separate package -- I don't program in FORTRAN, and those packages have been stable for some time. Speaking of "stable", the package currently has no maintainer. If you have been making improvements, perhaps you would like to seem them included? You could become maintainer, in which case you would be have authority to make changes as you see fit, or you could simply send them on to xemacs-patches. That's right. The xemacs-packages hierarchies have a fixed order of precedence, but the order underneath the xemacs-packages directory is arbitrary. Yes. If outdated (the .el is newer), there should be a warning, but the .elc will be loaded. We've never had the nerve to deviate from the GNU Emacs practice, so no automatic recompile (a la Python) is done, either. (I'm not entire sure it's a good idea, either, though it is attractive.) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta