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1 | ;;; paths.el --- define pathnames for use by various Emacs commands. |
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78cda03f | 3 | ;; Copyright (C) 1986, 1988, 1994, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
3a801d0c | 4 | |
e5167999 | 5 | ;; Maintainer: FSF |
d7b4d18f | 6 | ;; Keywords: internal |
e5167999 | 7 | |
a0824fec | 8 | ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. |
9 | ||
10 | ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
11 | ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
e5167999 | 12 | ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) |
a0824fec | 13 | ;; any later version. |
14 | ||
15 | ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
16 | ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
17 | ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
18 | ;; GNU General Public License for more details. | |
19 | ||
20 | ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
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21 | ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the |
22 | ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, | |
23 | ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. | |
a0824fec | 24 | |
e5167999 | 25 | ;;; Commentary: |
a0824fec | 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 | ||
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33 | ;;; Code: |
34 | ||
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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 | ||
a755d8e5 | 39 | (defvar Info-default-directory-list |
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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. | |
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50 | ;; (Standalone info has a long list of alternative |
51 | ;; directories to search; perhaps we should try to be more | |
52 | ;; consistent.) | |
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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))) | |
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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))) | |
e562af69 | 61 | start) |
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62 | "Default list of directories to search for Info documentation files. |
63 | They are searched in the order they are given in the list. | |
feea21d1 | 64 | Therefore, the directory of Info files that come with Emacs |
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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.") | |
a0824fec | 71 | |
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72 | (defvar news-path |
73 | (if (file-exists-p "/usr/spool/news/") | |
74 | "/usr/spool/news/" | |
75 | "/var/spool/news/") | |
a0824fec | 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") | |
c40c2f9d | 82 | ((file-exists-p "/usr/contrib/lib/news/inews") "/usr/contrib/lib/news/inews") |
a0824fec | 83 | ((file-exists-p "/usr/lib/news/inews") "/usr/lib/news/inews") |
84 | (t "inews")) | |
85 | "Program to post news.") | |
86 | ||
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87 | ;; set this to your local server |
88 | (defvar gnus-default-nntp-server "" "\ | |
89 | The name of the host running an NNTP server. | |
d390e294 | 90 | The null string means use the local host as the server site.") |
a0824fec | 91 | |
92 | (defvar gnus-nntp-service "nntp" | |
93 | "NNTP service name, usually \"nntp\" or 119). | |
527a0f36 | 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)'.") | |
a0824fec | 96 | |
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97 | (defvar gnus-local-organization nil "\ |
98 | *The name of your organization, as a string. | |
a0824fec | 99 | The `ORGANIZATION' environment variable is used instead if defined.") |
100 | ||
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101 | (defvar gnus-startup-file "~/.newsrc" "\ |
102 | The file listing groups to which user is subscribed. | |
a0824fec | 103 | Will use `gnus-startup-file'-SERVER instead if exists.") |
104 | ||
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105 | (defvar rmail-file-name "~/RMAIL" "\ |
106 | Name of user's primary mail file.") | |
5833af3a | 107 | |
a0824fec | 108 | (defconst rmail-spool-directory |
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109 | (cond ((string-match "^[^-]+-[^-]+-sco3.2v4" system-configuration) |
110 | "/usr/spool/mail/") | |
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111 | ;; On The Bull DPX/2 /usr/spool/mail is used although |
112 | ;; it is usg-unix-v. | |
113 | ((string-match "^m68k-bull-sysv3" system-configuration) | |
114 | "/usr/spool/mail/") | |
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115 | ;; SVR4 and recent BSD are said to use this. |
116 | ;; Rather than trying to know precisely which systems use it, | |
117 | ;; let's assume this dir is never used for anything else. | |
118 | ((file-exists-p "/var/mail") | |
fa8fb184 | 119 | "/var/mail/") |
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120 | ;; Many GNU/Linux systems use this name. |
121 | ((file-exists-p "/var/spool/mail") | |
c7de13da | 122 | "/var/spool/mail/") |
d9fc020b | 123 | ((memq system-type '(dgux hpux usg-unix-v unisoft-unix rtu irix)) |
1eff7356 | 124 | "/usr/mail/") |
1eff7356 | 125 | (t "/usr/spool/mail/")) |
a0824fec | 126 | "Name of directory used by system mailer for delivering new mail. |
127 | Its name should end with a slash.") | |
128 | ||
129 | (defconst sendmail-program | |
9c85ef9f | 130 | (cond |
9c85ef9f | 131 | ((file-exists-p "/usr/sbin/sendmail") "/usr/sbin/sendmail") |
1e0fea28 | 132 | ((file-exists-p "/usr/lib/sendmail") "/usr/lib/sendmail") |
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133 | ((file-exists-p "/usr/ucblib/sendmail") "/usr/ucblib/sendmail") |
134 | (t "fakemail")) ;In ../etc, to interface to /bin/mail. | |
a0824fec | 135 | "Program used to send messages.") |
136 | ||
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137 | (defconst remote-shell-program |
138 | (cond | |
139 | ;; Some systems use rsh for the remote shell; others use that name for the | |
140 | ;; restricted shell and use remsh for the remote shell. Let's try to guess | |
141 | ;; based on what we actually find out there. The restricted shell is | |
142 | ;; almost certainly in /bin or /usr/bin, so it's probably safe to assume | |
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143 | ;; that an rsh found elsewhere is the remote shell program. The converse |
144 | ;; is not true: /usr/bin/rsh could be either one, so check that last. | |
93a18127 | 145 | ((file-exists-p "/usr/ucb/remsh") "/usr/ucb/remsh") |
66263a7d | 146 | ((file-exists-p "/usr/bsd/remsh") "/usr/bsd/remsh") |
93a18127 | 147 | ((file-exists-p "/bin/remsh") "/bin/remsh") |
9ade6d5e | 148 | ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/remsh") "/usr/bin/remsh") |
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149 | ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/bin/remsh") "/usr/local/bin/remsh") |
150 | ((file-exists-p "/usr/ucb/rsh") "/usr/ucb/rsh") | |
151 | ((file-exists-p "/usr/bsd/rsh") "/usr/bsd/rsh") | |
93a18127 | 152 | ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/bin/rsh") "/usr/local/bin/rsh") |
fa195bce KH |
153 | ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/rcmd") "/usr/bin/rcmd") |
154 | ((file-exists-p "/bin/rcmd") "/bin/rcmd") | |
66263a7d KH |
155 | ((file-exists-p "/bin/rsh") "/bin/rsh") |
156 | ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/rsh") "/usr/bin/rsh") | |
93a18127 KH |
157 | (t "rsh"))) |
158 | ||
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159 | (defconst term-file-prefix (if (eq system-type 'vax-vms) "[.term]" "term/") "\ |
160 | If non-nil, Emacs startup does (load (concat term-file-prefix (getenv \"TERM\"))) | |
a0824fec | 161 | You may set this variable to nil in your `.emacs' file if you do not wish |
162 | the terminal-initialization file to be loaded.") | |
163 | ||
a0824fec | 164 | (defconst abbrev-file-name |
165 | (if (eq system-type 'vax-vms) | |
166 | "~/abbrev.def" | |
b33e350a | 167 | (convert-standard-filename "~/.abbrev_defs")) |
a0824fec | 168 | "*Default name of file to read abbrevs from.") |
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169 | |
170 | ;;; paths.el ends here |