;;; paths.el --- define pathnames for use by various Emacs commands -*- no-byte-compile: t -*-
-;; Copyright (C) 1986, 1988, 1994, 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; Copyright (C) 1986, 1988, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
+;; 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; Maintainer: FSF
;; Keywords: internal
;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
-;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+;; GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-;; any later version.
+;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+;; (at your option) any later version.
;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;; GNU General Public License for more details.
;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
-;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
-;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+;; along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
;;; Commentary:
;; DOC file rather than in memory.
(defun prune-directory-list (dirs &optional keep reject)
- "Returns a copy of DIRS with all non-existant directories removed.
+ "Returns a copy of DIRS with all non-existent directories removed.
The optional argument KEEP is a list of directories to retain even if
they don't exist, and REJECT is a list of directories to remove from
DIRS, even if they exist; REJECT takes precedence over KEEP.
Note that membership in REJECT and KEEP is checked using simple string
-comparision."
+comparison."
(apply #'nconc
(mapcar (lambda (dir)
(and (not (member dir reject))
(suffixes
;; Subdirectories in each directory tree that may contain info
;; directories.
- '("" "share/" "gnu/" "gnu/lib/" "gnu/lib/emacs/"
+ '("share/" "" "gnu/" "gnu/lib/" "gnu/lib/emacs/"
"emacs/" "lib/" "lib/emacs/"))
(standard-info-dirs
(apply #'nconc
dirs
(prune-directory-list dirs config))))
prefixes))))
- ;; If $(prefix)/info is not one of the standard info directories,
- ;; they are probably installing an experimental version of Emacs,
- ;; so make sure that experimental version's Info files override
- ;; the ones in standard directories.
+ ;; If $(prefix)/share/info is not one of the standard info
+ ;; directories, they are probably installing an experimental
+ ;; version of Emacs, so make sure that experimental version's Info
+ ;; files override the ones in standard directories.
(if (member config-dir standard-info-dirs)
(nconc standard-info-dirs config)
(cons config-dir standard-info-dirs)))
for initializing `Info-directory-list' when Info is started, unless
the environment variable INFOPATH is set.")
-(defvar news-path
+(defvar news-directory
(if (file-exists-p "/usr/spool/news/")
"/usr/spool/news/"
"/var/spool/news/")
"The root directory below which all news files are stored.")
+(defvaralias 'news-path 'news-directory)
(defvar news-inews-program
(cond ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/inews") "/usr/bin/inews")
:group 'rmail
:version "21.1")
-(defconst rmail-spool-directory
+(defvar rmail-spool-directory
(cond ((string-match "^[^-]+-[^-]+-sco3.2v4" system-configuration)
"/usr/spool/mail/")
;; On The Bull DPX/2 /usr/spool/mail is used although
;; Many GNU/Linux systems use this name.
((file-exists-p "/var/spool/mail")
"/var/spool/mail/")
- ((memq system-type '(dgux hpux usg-unix-v unisoft-unix rtu irix))
+ ((memq system-type '(hpux usg-unix-v unisoft-unix irix))
"/usr/mail/")
(t "/usr/spool/mail/"))
"Name of directory used by system mailer for delivering new mail.
Its name should end with a slash.")
-(defconst sendmail-program
- (cond
- ((file-exists-p "/usr/sbin/sendmail") "/usr/sbin/sendmail")
- ((file-exists-p "/usr/lib/sendmail") "/usr/lib/sendmail")
- ((file-exists-p "/usr/ucblib/sendmail") "/usr/ucblib/sendmail")
- (t "fakemail")) ;In ../etc, to interface to /bin/mail.
- "Program used to send messages.")
-
-(defconst remote-shell-program
+(defcustom remote-shell-program
(cond
;; Some systems use rsh for the remote shell; others use that name for the
;; restricted shell and use remsh for the remote shell. Let's try to guess
((file-exists-p "/bin/rsh") "/bin/rsh")
((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/rsh") "/usr/bin/rsh")
(t "rsh"))
- "File name for remote-shell program (often rsh or remsh).")
+ "File name for remote-shell program (often rsh or remsh)."
+ :group 'environment
+ :type 'file)
-(defconst term-file-prefix (if (eq system-type 'vax-vms) "[.term]" "term/") "\
+(defvar term-file-prefix (if (eq system-type 'vax-vms) "[.term]" "term/") "\
If non-nil, Emacs startup does (load (concat term-file-prefix (getenv \"TERM\")))
You may set this variable to nil in your `.emacs' file if you do not wish
the terminal-initialization file to be loaded.")
-(defconst abbrev-file-name
+(defvar abbrev-file-name
(if (eq system-type 'vax-vms)
"~/abbrev.def"
(convert-standard-filename "~/.abbrev_defs"))
"*Default name of file to read abbrevs from.")
-;;; arch-tag: bae27ffb-9944-4c87-b569-30d4635a99e1
+;; arch-tag: bae27ffb-9944-4c87-b569-30d4635a99e1
;;; paths.el ends here