Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)iskon.hr&gt; writes: [...] No, unfortunately it doesn't work that way. For example I have 3 versions of the gnus info-file on my system (from GNU Emacs, from XEmacs and the latest CVS-version of Gnus in my home directory): /dvs/stow/emacs-20.5a/info/gnus /disk-c/dvs/stow/xemacs-21.1.8/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/info/gnus.info ~/emacs/pgnus/texi/gnus therefore `Gnus' shows up 3 times in the `Top' node of my info tree: Info files in /disk-c/dvs/stow/xemacs-21.1.8/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/info/: [...] * Gnus:: [No description available] [...] Info files in /disk-a/fabian/emacs/lookup-1.1/texi/: * Lookup Guide: (lookup-guide). The Lookup User's Guide. * Lookup: (lookup). Lookup, a Search Interface. * Gnus: (gnus). The news reader Gnus. [...] Info files in /disk-a/fabian/emacs/bbdb-cvs/texinfo/: * Bbdb:: [No description available] * Gnus: (gnus). The news reader Gnus. (By the way, I use (if (string-match "XEmacs" emacs-version) (setq Info-auto-generate-directory 'always)) in my .emacs). Note that the lines `Info files in /...' often seem to be wrong, only the first such line above shows a directory where a gnus-info file really lives. No matter which link of Gnus:: or Gnus: I follow, I will always get the info-file of the Gnus from CVS in my home directory, because I did set this directory to come first in my `Info-directory-list'. In this case I don't care much, because I don't want to read the old Gnus-info-files anyway (And I know I can get them with `C-u M-x info' if I really want). But when I worked on Windows NT with Cygwin I had many info files with the same names (those which came with Cygwin and others copied from a Linux system for reference). I wanted to be able to read both versions conveniently. Neither GNU Emacs nor XEmacs could deal well with this. As a workaround I used hand-edited `dir' files in all the info directories with paths edited like * blabla: (./blabla). and a top-level dir file to switch to the different directories. I don't know whether there is a better way to do this. Mike -- Mike Fabian <fabian(a)mpia-hd.mpg.de&gt;