Oscar> - Choose precisely which info files you want displayed in the main menu Michael> I want all of them in the main menu by default. I also strongly Michael> believe the default should be to display all of them by default --- Michael> principle of least surprise, Oscar> It is naturally the default for autogenerated dir files. Presto! Michael> I should have been clearer: It should build the dir entries on the Michael> fly and not write (not even attempt to write) dir files. Oscar> Having dir files considerably speeds up the initial building of the Info buffer Oscar> as you don't need to open all the info files and look for the ＠direntry in each Oscar> of them. Sure, but the time it takes to rebuild is very acceptable out here. My info buffer has 307 lines from 11 separate info directories. 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 If you (setq Info-rebuild-outdated-dir 'always) then you can simply Oscar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. So---can I force it to autogenerate without trying to write? -- Cheers =8-} Chipsy Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla