Hrvoje> sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes: Hrvoje> IIRC, this was not so under original Per's design. Stallman insisted Hrvoje> on using ~/.emacs. That's what I meant by "needless to say" :-) Hrvoje> I think you should do it the way Customize does it. This is virtually Hrvoje> guaranteed to be correct, because then if somebody uses a weird .emacs Hrvoje> format, Customize will not work with it either. Hrvoje> The way Custom does it is to read the top-level forms until the form Hrvoje> whose car is the required symbol is found. Look at Hrvoje> `custom-save-delete' for an example of that. Unless I'm missing Hrvoje> something, it's very easy to implement. The problem is: how do I determine the set of all "required symbols"? It seems to be hardwired into cus-edit.el. -- Cheers =8-} Chipsy Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla