you're supposed to put the :require on all defcustoms that control whether the feature is enabled or not. packages are *never* supposed to enable themselves automatically upon load. perhaps efs is broken in both respects? i.e. it enables itself on load and doesn't even have a variable to turn itself on or off? "Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]" wrote: -- Ben In order to save my hands, I am cutting back on my mail. I also write as succinctly as possible -- please don't be offended. If you send me mail, you _will_ get a response, but please be patient, especially for XEmacs-related mail. If you need an immediate response and it is not apparent in your message, please say so. Thanks for your understanding. See also http://www.666.com/ben/typing.html.