1 ;;; paths.el --- define pathnames for use by various Emacs commands.
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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.
35 ;; Docstrings in this file should, where reasonable, follow the
36 ;; conventions described in bindings.el, so that they get put in the
37 ;; DOC file rather than in memory.
39 (defvar Info-default-directory-list
40 (let* ((start (list "/usr/local/lib/info/"
41 ;; This comes second so that, if it is the same
42 ;; as configure-info-directory (which is usually true)
43 ;; and Emacs has been installed (also usually true)
44 ;; then the list will end with two copies of this;
45 ;; which means that the last dir file Info-insert-dir
46 ;; finds will be the one in this directory.
48 ;; Typically on a GNU system, installed info files are found
49 ;; in /usr/info, but the default prefix is /usr/local.
50 ;; (Standalone info has a long list of alternative
51 ;; directories to search; perhaps we should try to be more
54 (sysdir (and (file-directory-p usrdir
)
55 (not (string= configure-info-directory usrdir
))
57 (configdir (file-name-as-directory configure-info-directory
)))
58 ;; configdir comes last so that we can identify it as such, but we
59 ;; also we override sysdir, hence the two occurrences.
60 (setq start
(nconc start
(list configdir
) sysdir
(list configdir
)))
62 "Default list of directories to search for Info documentation files.
63 They are searched in the order they are given in the list.
64 Therefore, the directory of Info files that come with Emacs
65 normally should come last (so that local files override standard ones).
67 Once Info is started, the list of directories to search
68 comes from the variable `Info-directory-list'.
69 This variable `Info-default-directory-list' is used as the default
70 for initializing `Info-directory-list' when Info is started.")
73 (if (file-exists-p "/usr/spool/news/")
76 "The root directory below which all news files are stored.")
78 (defvar news-inews-program
79 (cond ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/inews") "/usr/bin/inews")
80 ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/inews") "/usr/local/inews")
81 ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/bin/inews") "/usr/local/bin/inews")
82 ((file-exists-p "/usr/contrib/lib/news/inews") "/usr/contrib/lib/news/inews")
83 ((file-exists-p "/usr/lib/news/inews") "/usr/lib/news/inews")
85 "Program to post news.")
87 ;; set this to your local server
88 (defvar gnus-default-nntp-server
"" "\
89 The name of the host running an NNTP server.
90 The null string means use the local host as the server site.")
92 (defvar gnus-nntp-service
"nntp"
93 "NNTP service name, usually \"nntp\" or 119).
94 Go to a local news spool if its value is nil, in which case `gnus-nntp-server'
95 should be set to `(system-name)'.")
97 (defvar gnus-local-organization nil
"\
98 *The name of your organization, as a string.
99 The `ORGANIZATION' environment variable is used instead if defined.")
101 (defvar gnus-startup-file
"~/.newsrc" "\
102 The file listing groups to which user is subscribed.
103 Will use `gnus-startup-file'-SERVER instead if exists.")
105 (defcustom rmail-file-name
"~/RMAIL"
106 "*Name of user's primary mail file."
111 (defconst rmail-spool-directory
112 (cond ((string-match "^[^-]+-[^-]+-sco3.2v4" system-configuration
)
114 ;; On The Bull DPX/2 /usr/spool/mail is used although
116 ((string-match "^m68k-bull-sysv3" system-configuration
)
118 ;; SVR4 and recent BSD are said to use this.
119 ;; Rather than trying to know precisely which systems use it,
120 ;; let's assume this dir is never used for anything else.
121 ((file-exists-p "/var/mail")
123 ;; Many GNU/Linux systems use this name.
124 ((file-exists-p "/var/spool/mail")
126 ((memq system-type
'(dgux hpux usg-unix-v unisoft-unix rtu irix
))
128 (t "/usr/spool/mail/"))
129 "Name of directory used by system mailer for delivering new mail.
130 Its name should end with a slash.")
132 (defconst sendmail-program
134 ((file-exists-p "/usr/sbin/sendmail") "/usr/sbin/sendmail")
135 ((file-exists-p "/usr/lib/sendmail") "/usr/lib/sendmail")
136 ((file-exists-p "/usr/ucblib/sendmail") "/usr/ucblib/sendmail")
137 (t "fakemail")) ;In ../etc, to interface to /bin/mail.
138 "Program used to send messages.")
140 (defconst remote-shell-program
142 ;; Some systems use rsh for the remote shell; others use that name for the
143 ;; restricted shell and use remsh for the remote shell. Let's try to guess
144 ;; based on what we actually find out there. The restricted shell is
145 ;; almost certainly in /bin or /usr/bin, so it's probably safe to assume
146 ;; that an rsh found elsewhere is the remote shell program. The converse
147 ;; is not true: /usr/bin/rsh could be either one, so check that last.
148 ((file-exists-p "/usr/ucb/remsh") "/usr/ucb/remsh")
149 ((file-exists-p "/usr/bsd/remsh") "/usr/bsd/remsh")
150 ((file-exists-p "/bin/remsh") "/bin/remsh")
151 ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/remsh") "/usr/bin/remsh")
152 ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/bin/remsh") "/usr/local/bin/remsh")
153 ((file-exists-p "/usr/ucb/rsh") "/usr/ucb/rsh")
154 ((file-exists-p "/usr/bsd/rsh") "/usr/bsd/rsh")
155 ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/bin/rsh") "/usr/local/bin/rsh")
156 ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/rcmd") "/usr/bin/rcmd")
157 ((file-exists-p "/bin/rcmd") "/bin/rcmd")
158 ((file-exists-p "/bin/rsh") "/bin/rsh")
159 ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/rsh") "/usr/bin/rsh")
162 (defconst term-file-prefix
(if (eq system-type
'vax-vms
) "[.term]" "term/") "\
163 If non-nil, Emacs startup does (load (concat term-file-prefix (getenv \"TERM\")))
164 You may set this variable to nil in your `.emacs' file if you do not wish
165 the terminal-initialization file to be loaded.")
167 (defconst abbrev-file-name
168 (if (eq system-type
'vax-vms
)
170 (convert-standard-filename "~/.abbrev_defs"))
171 "*Default name of file to read abbrevs from.")
173 ;;; paths.el ends here