In article <Pine.LNX.4.61.0804262018010.2415(a)radium.ssi.swin.edu.au&gt; Tim Connors <tconnors(a)astro.swin.edu.au&gt; writes: Not sure what this has to do with the beta list, but... There's no easy way to do it, because XEmacs caches the home directory when it starts up, and in any case you can't change its own environment. If you're happy with just having ~ expanded, you could intercept expand-file-name, like so: (defvar temp-home nil "temporary home directory - must include final /") (fset 'real-expand-file-name (symbol-function 'expand-file-name)) (defun expand-file-name (name &optional defdir) (real-expand-file-name (if (and temp-home (string-match "^~/" name)) (replace-match temp-home t t name) name) defdir)) -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta