The path used by Aquamacs Emacs to load the plugin is as follows: /Library/Application Support/Emacs/ec-emacs/site-lisp/xxx.el (with 'Emacs' being capitalized) However, the plugin installs in /Library/Application Support/emacs/... (where emacs is NOT capitalized) Thus, the bug will remain dormant on a default HFS+ filesystem, but it will case a failure to load the plugin on a case-sensitive filesystem (whether a case-sensitive HFS+ or Unix filesystem). In GNU Emacs 22.1.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.9.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0) of 2007-10-02 on applecore.inf.ed.ac.uk - Aquamacs Distribution 1.2a Windowing system distributor `Apple Inc.', version 10.4.11 configured using `configure '--without-x' '--prefix=/usr/local'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: nil locale-coding-system: iso-8859-1 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: Fundamental Minor modes in effect: msb-mode: t one-buffer-one-frame-mode: t smart-frame-positioning-mode: t aquamacs-styles-mode: t recentf-mode: t encoded-kbd-mode: t osx-key-mode: t show-paren-mode: t delete-selection-mode: t pc-selection-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mac-input-method-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t utf-translate-cjk-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t Recent input: A-x C-x b A-c C-s c u a C-s C-s Recent messages: Loading /Users/defago/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/ customizations.el (source)...done Loading /Users/defago/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/frame- positions.el (source)...done Aquamacs is based on GNU Emacs 22, a part of the GNU/Linux system. It is Free Software: you can improve and redistribute it under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later. Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. (C) 2007 D. Reitter. No Warranty. The mark is not set now, so there is no region Mark saved where search started byte-code: Beginning of buffer [2 times] Loading emacsbug...done