Added support for cscope in my .emacs (require 'xscope) And on starting up emacs got … --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Cannot open load file" "xscope") require(xscope) eval-buffer(# nil "~/.emacs" nil t) load-with-code-conversion("/home/leol/.emacs" "~/.emacs" t t) load("~/.emacs" t t) #[nil "…— Æ=ƒ ÇÈQ‚5 É=ƒ' ÊÇËÌ#ƒ# Í‚5 ΂5 Ï=ƒ1 Ђ5 ÇÑQÒÓ\nÒ‰#ˆ Ò=ƒF Ë ƒˆ Ô !Õšƒˆ Ö !‰×PØ !ƒd ‚o Ø\f!ƒn \f‚o ˉƒ‡ Ù\f \"ƒ… ÚÛ\f #ˆÜÝ!ˆ\f*†– Ë ÓÞÒ‰#))‡" [init-file-user system-type user-init-file-1 user-init-file source alt ms-dos "~" "/_emacs" windows-nt directory-files nil "^\\.emacs\\(\\.elc?\\)?$" "~/.emacs" "~/_emacs" vax-vms "sys$login:.emacs" "/.emacs" t load file-name-extension "elc" file-name-sans-extension ".el" file-exists-p file-newer-than-file-p message "Warning: %s is newer than %s" sit-for 1 "default" inhibit-default-init inhibit-startup-message] 5]() command-line() normal-top-level() -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This seems to emit from startup.el. Any pointer/help is greatly appreciated …. This is emacs 21.2.1 on RH9. Thanks :-)