-;; Define pathnames for use by various Emacs commands.
+;;; paths.el --- define pathnames for use by various Emacs commands.
+
;; Copyright (C) 1986, 1988 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
;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
+;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
;; any later version.
;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
;; the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+;;; Commentary:
;; These are default settings for names of certain files and directories
;; that Emacs needs to refer to from time to time.
;; If these settings are not right, override them with `setq'
;; in site-init.el. Do not change this file.
-(defvar Info-directory-list
- (list (expand-file-name "../info/" exec-directory))
+;;; Code:
+
+(defvar Info-default-directory-list
+ (let ((start (list "/usr/local/info/"
+ "/usr/local/lib/info/"))
+ (configdir (file-name-as-directory configure-info-directory)))
+ (or (member configdir start)
+ (setq start (nconc start (list configdir))))
+ (or (member (expand-file-name "../info/" data-directory) start)
+ (setq start
+ (nconc start
+ (list (expand-file-name "../info/" data-directory)))))
+ start)
"List of directories to search for Info documentation files.")
(defvar news-path "/usr/spool/news/"
(defvar gnus-default-nntp-server ""
;; set this to your local server
"The name of the host running an NNTP server.
-If it is a string such as `:DIRECTORY', then ~/DIRECTORY
-is used as a news spool. gnus-nntp-server is initialised from NNTPSERVER
+If it is a string such as \":DIRECTORY\", then ~/DIRECTORY
+is used as a news spool. `gnus-nntp-server' is initialised from NNTPSERVER
environment variable or, if none, this value.")
(defvar gnus-nntp-service "nntp"
"NNTP service name, usually \"nntp\" or 119).
-Go to a local news spool if its value is nil.")
+Go to a local news spool if its value is nil, in which case `gnus-nntp-server'
+should be set to `(system-name)'.")
-(defvar gnus-your-domain nil
- "Your domain name without your host name like: \"stars.flab.Fujitsu.CO.JP\"
-The `DOMAINNAME' environment variable is used instead if defined. If
-the function (system-name) returns a fully qualified domain name, there is no
-need to define the name.")
+(defvar gnus-local-domain nil
+ "*Your domain name without a host name: for example, \"ai.mit.edu\".
+The DOMAINNAME environment variable is used instead if defined.
+If the function `system-name' returns a fully qualified domain name,
+there is no need to set this variable.")
-(defvar gnus-your-organization ""
- "Your organization like: \"Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan.\"
+(defvar gnus-local-organization nil
+ "*The name of your organization, as a string.
The `ORGANIZATION' environment variable is used instead if defined.")
(defvar mh-progs
- (cond ((file-directory-p "/usr/new/mh") "/usr/new/mh/")
- ((file-directory-p "/usr/local/bin/mh") "/usr/local/bin/mh/")
- ((file-directory-p "/usr/local/mh/") "/usr/local/mh/")
- (t "/usr/local/bin/"))
- "Directory containing MH commands")
+ (cond ((file-directory-p "/usr/bin/mh/") "/usr/bin/mh/") ;Ultrix 4.2
+ ((file-directory-p "/usr/new/mh/") "/usr/new/mh/") ;Ultrix <4.2
+ ((file-directory-p "/usr/local/bin/mh/") "/usr/local/bin/mh/")
+ ((file-directory-p "/usr/local/mh/") "/usr/local/mh/")
+ (t "/usr/local/bin/"))
+ "Directory containing MH commands.")
(defvar mh-lib
- (cond ((file-directory-p "/usr/new/lib/mh") "/usr/new/lib/mh/")
- ((file-directory-p "/usr/local/lib/mh") "/usr/local/lib/mh/")
- (t "/usr/local/bin/mh/"))
- "Directory of MH library")
+ (cond ((file-directory-p "/usr/lib/mh/") "/usr/lib/mh/") ;Ultrix 4.2
+ ((file-directory-p "/usr/new/lib/mh/") "/usr/new/lib/mh/") ;Ultrix <4.2
+ ((file-directory-p "/usr/local/lib/mh/") "/usr/local/lib/mh/")
+ (t "/usr/local/bin/mh/"))
+ "Directory of MH library.")
(defvar rmail-file-name "~/RMAIL"
"Name of user's primary mail file.")
Will use `gnus-startup-file'-SERVER instead if exists.")
(defconst rmail-spool-directory
- (if (memq system-type '(hpux usg-unix-v unisoft-unix rtu irix))
+ (if (memq system-type '(dgux-unix hpux usg-unix-v unisoft-unix rtu
+ irix silicon-graphics-unix))
"/usr/mail/"
"/usr/spool/mail/")
"Name of directory used by system mailer for delivering new mail.
Its name should end with a slash.")
(defconst sendmail-program
- (if (file-exists-p "/usr/lib/sendmail")
- "/usr/lib/sendmail"
- "fakemail") ;In ../etc, to interface to /bin/mail.
+ (cond
+ ((file-exists-p "/usr/lib/sendmail") "/usr/lib/sendmail")
+ ((file-exists-p "/usr/sbin/sendmail") "/usr/sbin/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 term-file-prefix (if (eq system-type 'vax-vms) "[.term]" "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 manual-program (if (eq system-type 'berkeley-unix)
+;; Solaris 2 has both of these files; prefer /usr/ucb/man
+;; because the other has nonstandard argument conventions.
+(defconst manual-program (if (file-exists-p "/usr/ucb/man")
"/usr/ucb/man" "/usr/bin/man")
"Program to run to print man pages.")
-;; Note that /usr/man/cat is not really right for this on sysV; nothing is,
-;; judging by the list of directories below. You can't get the dir
-;; for a section by appending the section number to any one prefix.
-;; But it turns out that a string that's wrong does no harm here.
-(defconst manual-formatted-dir-prefix
- (if (file-exists-p "/usr/man/cat.C") ;; Check for Xenix.
- "/usr/man/cat." "/usr/man/cat")
- "Prefix for directories containing formatted manual pages.
-Append a section-number or section-name to get a directory name.")
-
-(defconst manual-formatted-dirlist
- (cond ((eq system-type 'hpux)
- '("/usr/man/cat1" "/usr/man/cat2" "/usr/man/cat3"
- "/usr/man/cat4" "/usr/man/cat5" "/usr/man/cat6"
- "/usr/man/cat7" "/usr/man/cat1m" "/usr/man/cat8"
- "/usr/local/man/cat1" "/usr/local/man/cat2" "/usr/local/man/cat3"
- "/usr/local/man/cat4" "/usr/local/man/cat5" "/usr/local/man/cat6"
- "/usr/local/man/cat7" "/usr/local/man/cat1m" "/usr/local/man/cat8"
- "/usr/contrib/man/cat1" "/usr/contrib/man/cat2"
- "/usr/contrib/man/cat3" "/usr/contrib/man/cat4"
- "/usr/contrib/man/cat5" "/usr/contrib/man/cat6"
- "/usr/contrib/man/cat7" "/usr/contrib/man/cat1m"
- "/usr/contrib/man/cat8"))
- ((file-exists-p "/usr/man/cat.C") ; Xenix
- '("/usr/man/cat.C" "/usr/man/cat.CP" "/usr/man/cat.CT"
- "/usr/man/cat.DOS/" "/usr/man/cat.F" "/usr/man/cat.HW"
- "/usr/man/cat.M/" "/usr/man/cat.S" "/usr/man/cat.LOCAL"))
- ((file-exists-p "/usr/man/cat3/cat3")
- ;; This is for UMAX.
- '("/usr/man/cat1" "/usr/man/cat2"
- "/usr/man/cat3" "/usr/man/cat3/cat3"
- "/usr/man/cat3/cat3b" "/usr/man/cat3/cat3c"
- "/usr/man/cat3/cat3f" "/usr/man/cat3/cat3m"
- "/usr/man/cat3/cat3n" "/usr/man/cat3/cat3p"
- "/usr/man/cat3/cat3s" "/usr/man/cat3/cat3u"
- "/usr/man/cat3/cat3x" "/usr/man/cat4"
- "/usr/man/cat5" "/usr/man/cat6"
- "/usr/man/cat7" "/usr/man/cat8"
- "/usr/man/catl" "/usr/man/catn"))
- ((file-exists-p "/usr/man/cat1")
- '("/usr/man/cat1" "/usr/man/cat2" "/usr/man/cat3"
- "/usr/man/cat4" "/usr/man/cat5" "/usr/man/cat6"
- "/usr/man/cat7" "/usr/man/cat8" "/usr/man/catl" "/usr/man/catn"))
- (t
- '("/usr/catman/u_man/man1" "/usr/catman/u_man/man6"
- "/usr/catman/p_man/man2" "/usr/catman/p_man/man3"
- "/usr/catman/p_man/man4" "/usr/catman/p_man/man5"
- "/usr/catman/a_man/man1" "/usr/catman/a_man/man7"
- "/usr/catman/a_man/man8" "/usr/catman/local"
- "/usr/catman/a_man/man8" "/usr/catman/local/man1"
- "/usr/catman/local/man2" "/usr/catman/local/man3"
- "/usr/catman/local/man4" "/usr/catman/local/man5"
- "/usr/catman/local/man6" "/usr/catman/local/man7"
- "/usr/catman/local/man8")))
- "List of directories containing formatted manual pages.")
-
(defconst abbrev-file-name
(if (eq system-type 'vax-vms)
"~/abbrev.def"
"~/.abbrev_defs")
"*Default name of file to read abbrevs from.")
+
+;;; paths.el ends here