Re: Info warnings

Oscar> Having dir files considerably speeds up the initial building of the Oscar> Info buffer as you don't need to open all the info files and look for Oscar> the ＠direntry in each of them. Michael> Sure, but the time it takes to rebuild is very acceptable out here. Michael> My info buffer has 307 lines from 11 separate info directories. Oscar> Well on my Sparc 5 with info files mounted through NFS the delay *is* Oscar> noticeable. I didn't say it's not noticeable, I said it's acceptable. Michael> So---can I force it to autogenerate without trying to write? Oscar> Currently no. But you won't see the difference, even if I implement it. With Oscar> (setq Info-rebuild-outdated-dir 'always), the existence or non-existence of dir Oscar> files is completely transparent to the user be the generated dir's written to Oscar> disk or not. You won't notice anything. Sure I notice something: It leaves `dir' files lying around where there shouldn't be any. XEmacs is not the only tool that groks the info format. -- Cheers =8-} Chipsy Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla