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. Well on my Sparc 5 with info files mounted through NFS the delay *is* noticeable. Oscar> If you (setq Info-rebuild-outdated-dir 'always) then you can simply Oscar> ignore the existence of dir files, they're used as a cache and nothing more. Oscar> With this setting XEmacs never issues a warning about dir files, it writes them Oscar> to disk when it can and builds them as temporary when it can't. Michael> So---can I force it to autogenerate without trying to write? Currently no. But you won't see the difference, even if I implement it. With (setq Info-rebuild-outdated-dir 'always), the existence or non-existence of dir files is completely transparent to the user be the generated dir's written to disk or not. You won't notice anything. Oscar