Fellas. I do (load "hhm-config") and end up loading an .el not the .elc: $ locate hhm-config|xargs ls -ltu|sed s/.*20// 03-01-03 10:15 /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/html-helper-mode/hhm-config.el 02-12-07 16:10 /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/html-helper-mode/hhm-config.elc Indeed this may be the tip of an iceberg. -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780