I ran various versions of RH for many years and always had emacs set up so that the emacs command would take me to the file(s) that I had worked on in that dir most recently. Whenever I started a new dir I would do M^x desktop-save and accept the current working dir to store the .emacs.desktop file in. Under SL4.4 this no longer works. When I start emacs I get the banner page. When I hit a key it takes me to the top of the most recent file, not the place in the file where I was last working. This isn't specific to 4.4; I have met it under earlier SL versions at, for example, ESI. Can a kind person tell me how to get back the previous behaviour ? My .emacs file is below. With thanks in advance ... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ;; Red Hat Linux default .emacs initialization file ;; Are we running XEmacs or Emacs? (defvar running-xemacs (string-match "XEmacs\\|Lucid" emacs-version)) ;; Set up the keyboard so the delete key on both the regular keyboard ;; and the keypad delete the character under the cursor and to the right ;; under X, instead of the default, backspace behavior. (global-set-key [delete] 'delete-char) (global-set-key [kp-delete] 'delete-char) ;; Always end a file with a newline (setq require-final-newline t) ;; Stop at the end of the file, not just add lines (setq next-line-add-newlines nil) ;; Enable wheelmouse support by default (if (not running-xemacs) (require 'mwheel) ; Emacs (mwheel-install) ; XEmacs ) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;added personally from here on (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "-misc-fixed-medium-R-normal--20-200-75-75-C-100-ISO8859-1")) (setq-default latex-mode t) (setq default-major-mode 'latex-mode) (setq-default show-paren-mode t) (defun insert-date () "Insert date at the current cursor position in the current buffer." (interactive) (insert (format-time-string "%B %d, %Y"))) (define-key ctl-x-map "n" 'insert-date) ; next line added September 17, 2004 (setq tex-dvi-view-command "xmdvi") ; next line added 01-08-03, see p265 (setq tex-dvi-print-command "dvips") ; next two lines added 13-4-01. See p64 (setq-default case-fold-search nil) (setq-default case-replace nil) ; next line added 27-07-01 from FAQ 29 (setq frame-title-format "%b") (desktop-load-default) (setq-default save-place t) ; added February 23, 2007 (desktop-read) (custom-set-variables ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it! ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. '(auto-compression-mode t nil (jka-compr)) '(current-language-environment "English") '(default-input-method "rfc1345") '(global-font-lock-mode t nil (font-lock)) '(show-paren-mode t nil (paren)) '(transient-mark-mode t) '(uniquify-buffer-name-style (quote forward) nil (uniquify))) (require 'color-theme) (color-theme-calm-forest) (custom-set-faces ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it! ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance. ) _________________________________________________________________ Get Messenger FREE on your Mobile https://livemessenger.mobile.uk.msn.com/