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1 ;;; paths.el --- define pathnames for use by various Emacs commands.
3 ;; Copyright (C) 1986, 1988, 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 ;; Maintainer: FSF
6 ;; Keywords: internal
8 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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25 ;;; Commentary:
27 ;; These are default settings for names of certain files and directories
28 ;; that Emacs needs to refer to from time to time.
30 ;; If these settings are not right, override them with `setq'
31 ;; in site-init.el. Do not change this file.
33 ;;; Code:
35 (defvar Info-default-directory-list
36 (let ((start (list "/usr/local/lib/info/"
37 ;; This comes second so that, if it is the same
38 ;; as configure-info-directory (which is usually true)
39 ;; and Emacs has been installed (also usually true)
40 ;; then the list will end with two copies of this;
41 ;; which means that the last dir file Info-insert-dir
42 ;; finds will be the one in this directory.
43 "/usr/local/info/"))
44 (configdir (file-name-as-directory configure-info-directory)))
45 (setq start (nconc start (list configdir)))
46 start)
47 "Default list of directories to search for Info documentation files.
48 They are searched in the order they are given in the list.
49 Therefore, the directory of Info files that come with Emacs
50 normally should come last (so that local files override standard ones).
52 Once Info is started, the list of directories to search
53 comes from the variable `Info-directory-list'.
54 This variable `Info-default-directory-list' is used as the default
55 for initializing `Info-directory-list' when Info is started.")
57 (defvar news-path
58 (if (file-exists-p "/usr/spool/news/")
59 "/usr/spool/news/"
60 "/var/spool/news/")
61 "The root directory below which all news files are stored.")
63 (defvar news-inews-program
64 (cond ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/inews") "/usr/bin/inews")
65 ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/inews") "/usr/local/inews")
66 ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/bin/inews") "/usr/local/bin/inews")
67 ((file-exists-p "/usr/contrib/lib/news/inews") "/usr/contrib/lib/news/inews")
68 ((file-exists-p "/usr/lib/news/inews") "/usr/lib/news/inews")
69 (t "inews"))
70 "Program to post news.")
72 (defvar gnus-default-nntp-server ""
73 ;; set this to your local server
74 "The name of the host running an NNTP server.
75 The null string means use the local host as the server site.")
77 (defvar gnus-nntp-service "nntp"
78 "NNTP service name, usually \"nntp\" or 119).
79 Go to a local news spool if its value is nil, in which case `gnus-nntp-server'
80 should be set to `(system-name)'.")
82 (defvar gnus-local-organization nil
83 "*The name of your organization, as a string.
84 The `ORGANIZATION' environment variable is used instead if defined.")
86 (defvar gnus-startup-file "~/.newsrc"
87 "The file listing groups to which user is subscribed.
88 Will use `gnus-startup-file'-SERVER instead if exists.")
90 (defvar rmail-file-name "~/RMAIL"
91 "Name of user's primary mail file.")
93 (defconst rmail-spool-directory
94 (cond ((string-match "^[^-]+-[^-]+-sco3.2v4" system-configuration)
95 "/usr/spool/mail/")
96 ;; On The Bull DPX/2 /usr/spool/mail is used although
97 ;; it is usg-unix-v.
98 ((string-match "^m68k-bull-sysv3" system-configuration)
99 "/usr/spool/mail/")
100 ;; SVR4 and recent BSD are said to use this.
101 ;; Rather than trying to know precisely which systems use it,
102 ;; let's assume this dir is never used for anything else.
103 ((file-exists-p "/var/mail")
104 "/var/mail/")
105 ;; Many GNU/Linux systems use this name.
106 ((file-exists-p "/var/spool/mail")
107 "/var/spool/mail/")
108 ((memq system-type '(dgux hpux usg-unix-v unisoft-unix rtu irix))
109 "/usr/mail/")
110 (t "/usr/spool/mail/"))
111 "Name of directory used by system mailer for delivering new mail.
112 Its name should end with a slash.")
114 (defconst sendmail-program
115 (cond
116 ((file-exists-p "/usr/sbin/sendmail") "/usr/sbin/sendmail")
117 ((file-exists-p "/usr/lib/sendmail") "/usr/lib/sendmail")
118 ((file-exists-p "/usr/ucblib/sendmail") "/usr/ucblib/sendmail")
119 (t "fakemail")) ;In ../etc, to interface to /bin/mail.
120 "Program used to send messages.")
122 (defconst remote-shell-program
123 (cond
124 ;; Some systems use rsh for the remote shell; others use that name for the
125 ;; restricted shell and use remsh for the remote shell. Let's try to guess
126 ;; based on what we actually find out there. The restricted shell is
127 ;; almost certainly in /bin or /usr/bin, so it's probably safe to assume
128 ;; that an rsh found elsewhere is the remote shell program. The converse
129 ;; is not true: /usr/bin/rsh could be either one, so check that last.
130 ((file-exists-p "/usr/ucb/remsh") "/usr/ucb/remsh")
131 ((file-exists-p "/usr/bsd/remsh") "/usr/bsd/remsh")
132 ((file-exists-p "/bin/remsh") "/bin/remsh")
133 ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/remsh") "/usr/bin/remsh")
134 ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/bin/remsh") "/usr/local/bin/remsh")
135 ((file-exists-p "/usr/ucb/rsh") "/usr/ucb/rsh")
136 ((file-exists-p "/usr/bsd/rsh") "/usr/bsd/rsh")
137 ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/bin/rsh") "/usr/local/bin/rsh")
138 ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/rcmd") "/usr/bin/rcmd")
139 ((file-exists-p "/bin/rcmd") "/bin/rcmd")
140 ((file-exists-p "/bin/rsh") "/bin/rsh")
141 ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/rsh") "/usr/bin/rsh")
142 (t "rsh")))
144 (defconst term-file-prefix (if (eq system-type 'vax-vms) "[.term]" "term/")
145 "If non-nil, Emacs startup does (load (concat term-file-prefix (getenv \"TERM\")))
146 You may set this variable to nil in your `.emacs' file if you do not wish
147 the terminal-initialization file to be loaded.")
149 (defconst abbrev-file-name
150 (if (eq system-type 'vax-vms)
151 "~/abbrev.def"
152 (convert-standard-filename "~/.abbrev_defs"))
153 "*Default name of file to read abbrevs from.")
155 ;;; paths.el ends here