Value: "21.1 (patch 12) \"Channel Islands\" XEmacs Lucid" I customized Auto Generate Directory to "always", but I don't think it worked. After restarting xemacs, C-h i still seems to be using the "dir" file. I see for example: [...] Programming: * Octave:(octave). Interactive language for numerical computations. * Wget: (wget). The non-interactive network downloader. * Wget: (wget). The non-interactive network downloader. Info-directory-list is Value: ("/usr/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/info/" "/usr/share/info" "/usr/share/info")