Didier, Stephen! Here is where I arrived at. I canibalized Stephen's (and some of my ideas) from pxp and modified patcher.el, which is closer to what I need than pxp, and it is already ``customized''. It also uses the standard `patch-to-changelog' already. Since I don't know what happened to your version of patcher.el meanwhile, Didier, here is my current status. This may be ready for inclusion into the xemacs-base package already. Please test. I hope you won't de-test :-) Best regards, Adrian 2001-02-13 Adrian Aichner <adrian(a)xemacs.org&gt; * patcher.el: Use `compose-mail'. Insert heading for patch and each ChangeLog addition. Add internal supporting variable patcher-current-project. * patcher.el (patcher-mail-method): Commented out. * patcher.el (patcher-mail-sendmail): Ditto. * patcher.el (patcher-mail-message): Ditto. * patcher.el (patcher-mail-gnus): Ditto. >>>>> "drv" == Didier Verna <didier(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: drv> Red Alert ! Major fuckage in XEmacs session drv> ... Probable overheat in drv> the byte compiler drv> ... All systems alted. Mister La Forge, report to the drv> drv> bridge. drv> Let's try again: APA> Much better, patcher.el beamed up in one piece now and is soon to get APA> out of quarantine. APA> I haven't looked at it yet. APA> Hello Didier, APA> the model of project definition you use in patcher.el suits me well. APA> I have tested it a bit and had to start a new XEmacs to be able to APA> send you this mail :-) APA> The defun trickery inside APA> (eval-when-compile APA> is to blame. APA> Another issue: APA> Is patcher-mail suppose to create a fresh mail/message buffer and fill APA> it in correctly? APA> It doesn't for me when setting patcher-mail-method ot sendmail or APA> message. APA> For sendmail the diff command output is inserted just after the "To:" APA> header. APA> Setting the method to gnus does not work at all with APA> gnus-version "Gnus v5.8.7" APA> Why not use APA> (compose-mail ...) APA> instead? APA> See build-report or pxp. APA> I would definitely like to see patcher.el added to xemacs-devel once APA> these child sicknesses are overcome. APA> Best regards, APA> Adrian APA> Best regards, APA> Adrian APA> -- APA> Adrian Aichner APA> mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org APA> http://www.xemacs.org/ APA> -- APA> Adrian Aichner APA> mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org APA> http://www.xemacs.org/ -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/