lisp/paths.el

   1 ;;; paths.el --- define pathnames for use by various Emacs commands -*- no-byte-compile: t -*-
   2
   3 ;; Copyright (C) 1986, 1988, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003,
   4 ;;   2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   5
   6 ;; Maintainer: FSF
   7 ;; Keywords: internal
   8
   9 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
  10
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  24 ;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
  25
  26 ;;; Commentary:
  27
  28 ;; These are default settings for names of certain files and directories
  29 ;; that Emacs needs to refer to from time to time.
  30
  31 ;; If these settings are not right, override them with `setq'
  32 ;; in site-init.el.  Do not change this file.
  33
  34 ;;; Code:
  35
  36 ;; Docstrings in this file should, where reasonable, follow the
  37 ;; conventions described in bindings.el, so that they get put in the
  38 ;; DOC file rather than in memory.
  39
  40 (defun prune-directory-list (dirs &optional keep reject)
  41   "Returns a copy of DIRS with all non-existent directories removed.
  42 The optional argument KEEP is a list of directories to retain even if
  43 they don't exist, and REJECT is a list of directories to remove from
  44 DIRS, even if they exist; REJECT takes precedence over KEEP.
  45
  46 Note that membership in REJECT and KEEP is checked using simple string
  47 comparison."
  48   (apply #'nconc
  49          (mapcar (lambda (dir)
  50                    (and (not (member dir reject))
  51                         (or (member dir keep) (file-directory-p dir))
  52                         (list dir)))
  53                     dirs)))
  54
  55 (defvar Info-default-directory-list
  56   (let* ((config-dir
  57           (file-name-as-directory configure-info-directory))
  58          (config
  59           (list config-dir))
  60          (unpruned-prefixes
  61           ;; Directory trees that may not exist at installation time, and
  62           ;; so shouldn't be pruned based on existance.
  63           '("/usr/local/"))
  64          (prefixes
  65           ;; Directory trees in which to look for info subdirectories
  66           (prune-directory-list '("/usr/local/" "/usr/" "/opt/" "/")
  67                                 unpruned-prefixes))
  68          (suffixes
  69           ;; Subdirectories in each directory tree that may contain info
  70           ;; directories.
  71           '("" "share/" "gnu/" "gnu/lib/" "gnu/lib/emacs/"
  72             "emacs/" "lib/" "lib/emacs/"))
  73          (standard-info-dirs
  74           (apply #'nconc
  75                  (mapcar (lambda (pfx)
  76                            (let ((dirs
  77                                   (mapcar (lambda (sfx)
  78                                             (concat pfx sfx "info/"))
  79                                           suffixes)))
  80                              (if (member pfx unpruned-prefixes)
  81                                  dirs
  82                                (prune-directory-list dirs config))))
  83                          prefixes))))
  84     ;; If $(prefix)/info is not one of the standard info directories,
  85     ;; they are probably installing an experimental version of Emacs,
  86     ;; so make sure that experimental version's Info files override
  87     ;; the ones in standard directories.
  88     (if (member config-dir standard-info-dirs)
  89         (nconc standard-info-dirs config)
  90       (cons config-dir standard-info-dirs)))
  91   "Default list of directories to search for Info documentation files.
  92 They are searched in the order they are given in the list.
  93 Therefore, the directory of Info files that come with Emacs
  94 normally should come last (so that local files override standard ones),
  95 unless Emacs is installed into a non-standard directory.  In the latter
  96 case, the directory of Info files that come with Emacs should be
  97 first in this list.
  98
  99 Once Info is started, the list of directories to search
 100 comes from the variable `Info-directory-list'.
 101 This variable `Info-default-directory-list' is used as the default
 102 for initializing `Info-directory-list' when Info is started, unless
 103 the environment variable INFOPATH is set.")
 104
 105 (defvar news-directory
 106   (if (file-exists-p "/usr/spool/news/")
 107       "/usr/spool/news/"
 108     "/var/spool/news/")
 109   "The root directory below which all news files are stored.")
 110 (defvaralias 'news-path 'news-directory)
 111
 112 (defvar news-inews-program
 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.")
 120
 121 ;; set this to your local server
 122 (defvar gnus-default-nntp-server "" "\
 123 The name of the host running an NNTP server.
 124 The null string means use the local host as the server site.")
 125
 126 (defvar gnus-nntp-service "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)'.")
 130
 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.")
 134
 135 (defcustom rmail-file-name "~/RMAIL"
 136   "*Name of user's primary mail file."
 137   :type 'string
 138   :group 'rmail
 139   :version "21.1")
 140
 141 (defvar rmail-spool-directory
 142   (cond ((string-match "^[^-]+-[^-]+-sco3.2v4" system-configuration)
 143          "/usr/spool/mail/")
 144         ;; On The Bull DPX/2 /usr/spool/mail is used although
 145         ;; it is usg-unix-v.
 146         ((string-match "^m68k-bull-sysv3" system-configuration)
 147          "/usr/spool/mail/")
 148         ;; SVR4 and recent BSD are said to use this.
 149         ;; Rather than trying to know precisely which systems use it,
 150         ;; let's assume this dir is never used for anything else.
 151         ((file-exists-p "/var/mail")
 152          "/var/mail/")
 153         ;; Many GNU/Linux systems use this name.
 154         ((file-exists-p "/var/spool/mail")
 155          "/var/spool/mail/")
 156         ((memq system-type '(dgux hpux usg-unix-v unisoft-unix rtu irix))
 157          "/usr/mail/")
 158         (t "/usr/spool/mail/"))
 159   "Name of directory used by system mailer for delivering new mail.
 160 Its name should end with a slash.")
 161
 162 (defcustom sendmail-program
 163   (cond
 164     ((file-exists-p "/usr/sbin/sendmail") "/usr/sbin/sendmail")
 165     ((file-exists-p "/usr/lib/sendmail") "/usr/lib/sendmail")
 166     ((file-exists-p "/usr/ucblib/sendmail") "/usr/ucblib/sendmail")
 167     (t "fakemail"))                     ;In ../etc, to interface to /bin/mail.
 168   "Program used to send messages."
 169   :group 'mail
 170   :type 'file)
 171
 172 (defcustom remote-shell-program
 173   (cond
 174    ;; Some systems use rsh for the remote shell; others use that name for the
 175    ;; restricted shell and use remsh for the remote shell.  Let's try to guess
 176    ;; based on what we actually find out there.  The restricted shell is
 177    ;; almost certainly in /bin or /usr/bin, so it's probably safe to assume
 178    ;; that an rsh found elsewhere is the remote shell program.  The converse
 179    ;; is not true: /usr/bin/rsh could be either one, so check that last.
 180    ((file-exists-p "/usr/ucb/remsh") "/usr/ucb/remsh")
 181    ((file-exists-p "/usr/bsd/remsh") "/usr/bsd/remsh")
 182    ((file-exists-p "/bin/remsh") "/bin/remsh")
 183    ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/remsh") "/usr/bin/remsh")
 184    ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/bin/remsh") "/usr/local/bin/remsh")
 185    ((file-exists-p "/usr/ucb/rsh") "/usr/ucb/rsh")
 186    ((file-exists-p "/usr/bsd/rsh") "/usr/bsd/rsh")
 187    ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/bin/rsh") "/usr/local/bin/rsh")
 188    ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/rcmd") "/usr/bin/rcmd")
 189    ((file-exists-p "/bin/rcmd") "/bin/rcmd")
 190    ((file-exists-p "/bin/rsh") "/bin/rsh")
 191    ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/rsh") "/usr/bin/rsh")
 192    (t "rsh"))
 193   "File name for remote-shell program (often rsh or remsh)."
 194   :group 'environment
 195   :type 'file)
 196
 197 (defvar term-file-prefix (if (eq system-type 'vax-vms) "[.term]" "term/") "\
 198 If non-nil, Emacs startup does (load (concat term-file-prefix (getenv \"TERM\")))
 199 You may set this variable to nil in your `.emacs' file if you do not wish
 200 the terminal-initialization file to be loaded.")
 201
 202 (defvar abbrev-file-name
 203   (if (eq system-type 'vax-vms)
 204       "~/abbrev.def"
 205     (convert-standard-filename "~/.abbrev_defs"))
 206   "*Default name of file to read abbrevs from.")
 207
 208 ;;; arch-tag: bae27ffb-9944-4c87-b569-30d4635a99e1
 209 ;;; paths.el ends here