lisp/paths.el

   1 ;;; paths.el --- define pathnames for use by various Emacs commands.
   2
   3 ;; Copyright (C) 1986, 1988, 1994, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   4
   5 ;; Maintainer: FSF
   6 ;; Keywords: internal
   7
   8 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
   9
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  24
  25 ;;; Commentary:
  26
  27 ;; These are default settings for names of certain files and directories
  28 ;; that Emacs needs to refer to from time to time.
  29
  30 ;; If these settings are not right, override them with `setq'
  31 ;; in site-init.el.  Do not change this file.
  32
  33 ;;; Code:
  34
  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.
  38
  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.
  47                       "/usr/local/info/"))
  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
  52          ;; consistent.)
  53          (usrdir "/usr/info")
  54          (sysdir (and (file-directory-p usrdir)
  55                       (not (string= configure-info-directory usrdir))
  56                       (list 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)))
  61     start)
  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).
  66
  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.")
  71
  72 (defvar news-path
  73   (if (file-exists-p "/usr/spool/news/")
  74       "/usr/spool/news/"
  75     "/var/spool/news/")
  76   "The root directory below which all news files are stored.")
  77
  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")
  84         (t "inews"))
  85   "Program to post news.")
  86
  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.")
  91
  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)'.")
  96
  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.")
 100
 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.")
 104
 105 (defcustom rmail-file-name "~/RMAIL"
 106   "*Name of user's primary mail file."
 107   :type 'string
 108   :group 'rmail
 109   :version "21.1")
 110
 111 (defconst rmail-spool-directory
 112   (cond ((string-match "^[^-]+-[^-]+-sco3.2v4" system-configuration)
 113          "/usr/spool/mail/")
 114         ;; On The Bull DPX/2 /usr/spool/mail is used although
 115         ;; it is usg-unix-v.
 116         ((string-match "^m68k-bull-sysv3" system-configuration)
 117          "/usr/spool/mail/")
 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")
 122          "/var/mail/")
 123         ;; Many GNU/Linux systems use this name.
 124         ((file-exists-p "/var/spool/mail")
 125          "/var/spool/mail/")
 126         ((memq system-type '(dgux hpux usg-unix-v unisoft-unix rtu irix))
 127          "/usr/mail/")
 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.")
 131
 132 (defconst sendmail-program
 133   (cond
 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.")
 139
 140 (defconst remote-shell-program
 141   (cond
 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")
 160    (t "rsh")))
 161
 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.")
 166
 167 (defconst abbrev-file-name
 168   (if (eq system-type 'vax-vms)
 169       "~/abbrev.def"
 170     (convert-standard-filename "~/.abbrev_defs"))
 171   "*Default name of file to read abbrevs from.")
 172
 173 ;;; paths.el ends here