sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes: OK. Now, what we need is a variable that *can* be customized, and that is nil by default. Info would then use something like (append <that-variable> Info-directory-list) for its directory search. Code will be fully backward compatible wrt user customizations because modifications of Info-directory-list will still work. I propose that the new variable be named Info-default-directory-list, because GNU Emacs calls it that way (and also defaults it to nil.)