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1 ;;; paths.el --- define pathnames for use by various Emacs commands -*- no-byte-compile: t -*-
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1986, 1988, 1994, 1999-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Maintainer: FSF
6 ;; Keywords: internal
7 ;; Package: emacs
9 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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22 ;; along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
24 ;;; Commentary:
26 ;; These are default settings for names of certain files and directories
27 ;; that Emacs needs to refer to from time to time.
29 ;; If these settings are not right, override them with `setq'
30 ;; in site-init.el. Do not change this file.
32 ;;; Code:
34 ;; Docstrings in this file should, where reasonable, follow the
35 ;; conventions described in make-docfile, so that they get put in the
36 ;; DOC file rather than in memory.
38 (defun prune-directory-list (dirs &optional keep reject)
40 Return a copy of DIRS with all non-existent directories removed.
41 The optional argument KEEP is a list of directories to retain even if
42 they don't exist, and REJECT is a list of directories to remove from
43 DIRS, even if they exist; REJECT takes precedence over KEEP.
45 Note that membership in REJECT and KEEP is checked using simple string
46 comparison."
47 (apply #'nconc
48 (mapcar (lambda (dir)
49 (and (not (member dir reject))
50 (or (member dir keep) (file-directory-p dir))
51 (list dir)))
52 dirs)))
54 (defvar Info-default-directory-list
55 (let* ((config-dir
56 (file-name-as-directory configure-info-directory))
57 (config
58 (list config-dir))
59 (unpruned-prefixes
60 ;; Directory trees that may not exist at installation time, and
61 ;; so shouldn't be pruned based on existence.
62 '("/usr/local/"))
63 (prefixes
64 ;; Directory trees in which to look for info subdirectories
65 (prune-directory-list '("/usr/local/" "/usr/" "/opt/" "/")
66 unpruned-prefixes))
67 (suffixes
68 ;; Subdirectories in each directory tree that may contain info
69 ;; directories.
70 '("share/" "" "gnu/" "gnu/lib/" "gnu/lib/emacs/"
71 "emacs/" "lib/" "lib/emacs/"))
72 (standard-info-dirs
73 (apply #'nconc
74 (mapcar (lambda (pfx)
75 (let ((dirs
76 (mapcar (lambda (sfx)
77 (concat pfx sfx "info/"))
78 suffixes)))
79 (if (member pfx unpruned-prefixes)
80 dirs
81 (prune-directory-list dirs config))))
82 prefixes))))
83 ;; If $(prefix)/share/info is not one of the standard info
84 ;; directories, they are probably installing an experimental
85 ;; version of Emacs, so make sure that experimental version's Info
86 ;; files override the ones in standard directories.
87 (if (member config-dir standard-info-dirs)
88 (nconc standard-info-dirs config)
89 (cons config-dir standard-info-dirs)))
90 "Default list of directories to search for Info documentation files.
91 They are searched in the order they are given in the list.
92 Therefore, the directory of Info files that come with Emacs
93 normally should come last (so that local files override standard ones),
94 unless Emacs is installed into a non-standard directory. In the latter
95 case, the directory of Info files that come with Emacs should be
96 first in this list.
98 Once Info is started, the list of directories to search
99 comes from the variable `Info-directory-list'.
100 This variable `Info-default-directory-list' is used as the default
101 for initializing `Info-directory-list' when Info is started, unless
102 the environment variable INFOPATH is set.")
104 (defvar news-directory
105 (purecopy (if (file-exists-p "/usr/spool/news/")
106 "/usr/spool/news/"
107 "/var/spool/news/"))
108 "The root directory below which all news files are stored.")
109 (defvaralias 'news-path 'news-directory)
111 (defvar news-inews-program
112 (purecopy
113 (cond ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/inews") "/usr/bin/inews")
114 ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/inews") "/usr/local/inews")
115 ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/bin/inews") "/usr/local/bin/inews")
116 ((file-exists-p "/usr/contrib/lib/news/inews") "/usr/contrib/lib/news/inews")
117 ((file-exists-p "/usr/lib/news/inews") "/usr/lib/news/inews")
118 (t "inews")))
119 "Program to post news.")
121 ;; set this to your local server
122 (defvar gnus-default-nntp-server (purecopy "") "\
123 The name of the host running an NNTP server.
124 The null string means use the local host as the server site.")
126 (defvar gnus-nntp-service (purecopy "nntp") "\
127 NNTP service name, usually \"nntp\" or 119.
128 Go to a local news spool if its value is nil, in which case `gnus-nntp-server'
129 should be set to `(system-name)'.")
131 (defvar gnus-local-organization nil "\
132 *The name of your organization, as a string.
133 The `ORGANIZATION' environment variable is used instead if defined.")
135 (defcustom rmail-file-name (purecopy "~/RMAIL") "\
136 Name of user's primary mail file."
137 :type 'string
138 :group 'rmail
139 :version "21.1")
141 (defvar rmail-spool-directory
142 (purecopy
143 (cond ((file-exists-p "/var/mail")
144 ;; SVR4 and recent BSD are said to use this.
145 ;; Rather than trying to know precisely which systems use it,
146 ;; let's assume this dir is never used for anything else.
147 "/var/mail/")
148 ;; Many GNU/Linux systems use this name.
149 ((file-exists-p "/var/spool/mail")
150 "/var/spool/mail/")
151 ((memq system-type '(hpux usg-unix-v irix))
152 "/usr/mail/")
153 (t "/usr/spool/mail/")))
154 "Name of directory used by system mailer for delivering new mail.
155 Its name should end with a slash.")
157 (defcustom remote-shell-program
158 (purecopy
159 (cond
160 ;; Some systems use rsh for the remote shell; others use that name for the
161 ;; restricted shell and use remsh for the remote shell. Let's try to guess
162 ;; based on what we actually find out there. The restricted shell is
163 ;; almost certainly in /bin or /usr/bin, so it's probably safe to assume
164 ;; that an rsh found elsewhere is the remote shell program. The converse
165 ;; is not true: /usr/bin/rsh could be either one, so check that last.
166 ((file-exists-p "/usr/ucb/remsh") "/usr/ucb/remsh")
167 ((file-exists-p "/usr/bsd/remsh") "/usr/bsd/remsh")
168 ((file-exists-p "/bin/remsh") "/bin/remsh")
169 ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/remsh") "/usr/bin/remsh")
170 ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/bin/remsh") "/usr/local/bin/remsh")
171 ((file-exists-p "/usr/ucb/rsh") "/usr/ucb/rsh")
172 ((file-exists-p "/usr/bsd/rsh") "/usr/bsd/rsh")
173 ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/bin/rsh") "/usr/local/bin/rsh")
174 ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/rcmd") "/usr/bin/rcmd")
175 ((file-exists-p "/bin/rcmd") "/bin/rcmd")
176 ((file-exists-p "/bin/rsh") "/bin/rsh")
177 ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/rsh") "/usr/bin/rsh")
178 (t "rsh")))
179 "File name for remote-shell program (often rsh or remsh)."
180 :group 'environment
181 :type 'file)
183 (defvar term-file-prefix (purecopy "term/") "\
184 If non-nil, Emacs startup does (load (concat term-file-prefix (getenv \"TERM\")))
185 You may set this variable to nil in your `.emacs' file if you do not wish
186 the terminal-initialization file to be loaded.")
188 ;;; paths.el ends here