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, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
   4 ;;   2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   5
   6 ;; Maintainer: FSF
   7 ;; Keywords: internal
   8 ;; Package: emacs
   9
  10 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
  11
  12 ;; GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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  16
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  21
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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 make-docfile, so that they get put in the
  37 ;; DOC file rather than in memory.
  38
  39 (defun prune-directory-list (dirs &optional keep reject)
  40   "\
  41 Return 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 existence.
  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)/share/info is not one of the standard info
  85     ;; directories, they are probably installing an experimental
  86     ;; version of Emacs, so make sure that experimental version's Info
  87     ;; files override 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   (purecopy (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   (purecopy
 114   (cond ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/inews") "/usr/bin/inews")
 115         ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/inews") "/usr/local/inews")
 116         ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/bin/inews") "/usr/local/bin/inews")
 117         ((file-exists-p "/usr/contrib/lib/news/inews") "/usr/contrib/lib/news/inews")
 118         ((file-exists-p "/usr/lib/news/inews") "/usr/lib/news/inews")
 119         (t "inews")))
 120   "Program to post news.")
 121
 122 ;; set this to your local server
 123 (defvar gnus-default-nntp-server (purecopy "") "\
 124 The name of the host running an NNTP server.
 125 The null string means use the local host as the server site.")
 126
 127 (defvar gnus-nntp-service (purecopy "nntp") "\
 128 NNTP service name, usually \"nntp\" or 119.
 129 Go to a local news spool if its value is nil, in which case `gnus-nntp-server'
 130 should be set to `(system-name)'.")
 131
 132 (defvar gnus-local-organization nil "\
 133 *The name of your organization, as a string.
 134 The `ORGANIZATION' environment variable is used instead if defined.")
 135
 136 (defcustom rmail-file-name (purecopy "~/RMAIL") "\
 137 Name of user's primary mail file."
 138   :type 'string
 139   :group 'rmail
 140   :version "21.1")
 141
 142 (defvar rmail-spool-directory
 143   (purecopy
 144   (cond ((file-exists-p "/var/mail")
 145          ;; SVR4 and recent BSD are said to use this.
 146          ;; Rather than trying to know precisely which systems use it,
 147          ;; let's assume this dir is never used for anything else.
 148          "/var/mail/")
 149         ;; Many GNU/Linux systems use this name.
 150         ((file-exists-p "/var/spool/mail")
 151          "/var/spool/mail/")
 152         ((memq system-type '(hpux usg-unix-v irix))
 153          "/usr/mail/")
 154         (t "/usr/spool/mail/")))
 155   "Name of directory used by system mailer for delivering new mail.
 156 Its name should end with a slash.")
 157
 158 (defcustom remote-shell-program
 159   (purecopy
 160   (cond
 161    ;; Some systems use rsh for the remote shell; others use that name for the
 162    ;; restricted shell and use remsh for the remote shell.  Let's try to guess
 163    ;; based on what we actually find out there.  The restricted shell is
 164    ;; almost certainly in /bin or /usr/bin, so it's probably safe to assume
 165    ;; that an rsh found elsewhere is the remote shell program.  The converse
 166    ;; is not true: /usr/bin/rsh could be either one, so check that last.
 167    ((file-exists-p "/usr/ucb/remsh") "/usr/ucb/remsh")
 168    ((file-exists-p "/usr/bsd/remsh") "/usr/bsd/remsh")
 169    ((file-exists-p "/bin/remsh") "/bin/remsh")
 170    ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/remsh") "/usr/bin/remsh")
 171    ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/bin/remsh") "/usr/local/bin/remsh")
 172    ((file-exists-p "/usr/ucb/rsh") "/usr/ucb/rsh")
 173    ((file-exists-p "/usr/bsd/rsh") "/usr/bsd/rsh")
 174    ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/bin/rsh") "/usr/local/bin/rsh")
 175    ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/rcmd") "/usr/bin/rcmd")
 176    ((file-exists-p "/bin/rcmd") "/bin/rcmd")
 177    ((file-exists-p "/bin/rsh") "/bin/rsh")
 178    ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/rsh") "/usr/bin/rsh")
 179    (t "rsh")))
 180   "File name for remote-shell program (often rsh or remsh)."
 181   :group 'environment
 182   :type 'file)
 183
 184 (defvar term-file-prefix (purecopy "term/") "\
 185 If non-nil, Emacs startup does (load (concat term-file-prefix (getenv \"TERM\")))
 186 You may set this variable to nil in your `.emacs' file if you do not wish
 187 the terminal-initialization file to be loaded.")
 188
 189 ;; arch-tag: bae27ffb-9944-4c87-b569-30d4635a99e1
 190 ;;; paths.el ends here