Re: Info warnings

Hrvoje> You certainly haven't made changes according to my suggestions, Hrvoje> because I surely wanted the warning to go away, and so did Jan and Hrvoje> Chipsy. Michael> Exactly. I only didn't speak up because I hadn't used Info in quite a Michael> while, as I now notice. Michael> I'll reiterate: The concept of "dir" files is broken. I'll reiterate also: they may be broken by concept but they allow you to do things you wouldn't be able to otherwise: - Provide a description for info files that have none (and there are many) - Add additional information around menu entries - Choose a specific order for display (without that the XEmacs user manual for instance would appear at a random place instead of the beginning of the Info buffer) - Group related info files together - Choose precisely which info files you want displayed in the main menu Michael> The current behavior amounts to telling the user something she Michael> already knows on every single startup. Michael> Options: Michael> - If we don't consider "dir" files broken, then XEmacs should always Michael> use the dir files which are there without complaining. (setq Info-rebuild-outdated-dir 'never) does exactly this Michael> - If we do, XEmacs should always rebuild on the fly, again without Michael> complaining. (setq Info-rebuild-outdated-dir 'always) does exactly this Michael> Just to make it clear again, I'd prefer the latter. Do what you want, the option is yours. This is indicated in the NEWS file. Oscar