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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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14
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19
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23 ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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 (defvar Info-default-directory-list
36 (let* ((start (list "/usr/local/lib/info/"
37 ;; This comes second so that, if it is the same
38 ;; as configure-info-directory (which is usually true)
39 ;; and Emacs has been installed (also usually true)
40 ;; then the list will end with two copies of this;
41 ;; which means that the last dir file Info-insert-dir
42 ;; finds will be the one in this directory.
43 "/usr/local/info/"))
44 ;; Typically on a GNU system, installed info files are found
45 ;; in /usr/info, but the default prefix is /usr/local.
46 ;; (Standalone info has a long list of alternative
47 ;; directories to search; perhaps we should try to be more
48 ;; consistent.)
49 (usrdir "/usr/info")
50 (sysdir (and (file-directory-p usrdir)
51 (not (string= configure-info-directory usrdir))
52 (list usrdir)))
53 (configdir (file-name-as-directory configure-info-directory)))
54 ;; configdir comes last so that we can identify it as such, but we
55 ;; also we override sysdir, hence the two occurrences.
56 (setq start (nconc start (list configdir) sysdir (list configdir)))
57 start)
58 "Default list of directories to search for Info documentation files.
59 They are searched in the order they are given in the list.
60 Therefore, the directory of Info files that come with Emacs
61 normally should come last (so that local files override standard ones).
62
63 Once Info is started, the list of directories to search
64 comes from the variable `Info-directory-list'.
65 This variable `Info-default-directory-list' is used as the default
66 for initializing `Info-directory-list' when Info is started.")
67
68 (defvar news-path
69 (if (file-exists-p "/usr/spool/news/")
70 "/usr/spool/news/"
71 "/var/spool/news/")
72 "The root directory below which all news files are stored.")
73
74 (defvar news-inews-program
75 (cond ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/inews") "/usr/bin/inews")
76 ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/inews") "/usr/local/inews")
77 ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/bin/inews") "/usr/local/bin/inews")
78 ((file-exists-p "/usr/contrib/lib/news/inews") "/usr/contrib/lib/news/inews")
79 ((file-exists-p "/usr/lib/news/inews") "/usr/lib/news/inews")
80 (t "inews"))
81 "Program to post news.")
82
83 (defvar gnus-default-nntp-server ""
84 ;; set this to your local server
85 "The name of the host running an NNTP server.
86 The null string means use the local host as the server site.")
87
88 (defvar gnus-nntp-service "nntp"
89 "NNTP service name, usually \"nntp\" or 119).
90 Go to a local news spool if its value is nil, in which case `gnus-nntp-server'
91 should be set to `(system-name)'.")
92
93 (defvar gnus-local-organization nil
94 "*The name of your organization, as a string.
95 The `ORGANIZATION' environment variable is used instead if defined.")
96
97 (defvar gnus-startup-file "~/.newsrc"
98 "The file listing groups to which user is subscribed.
99 Will use `gnus-startup-file'-SERVER instead if exists.")
100
101 (defvar rmail-file-name "~/RMAIL"
102 "Name of user's primary mail file.")
103
104 (defconst rmail-spool-directory
105 (cond ((string-match "^[^-]+-[^-]+-sco3.2v4" system-configuration)
106 "/usr/spool/mail/")
107 ;; On The Bull DPX/2 /usr/spool/mail is used although
108 ;; it is usg-unix-v.
109 ((string-match "^m68k-bull-sysv3" system-configuration)
110 "/usr/spool/mail/")
111 ;; SVR4 and recent BSD are said to use this.
112 ;; Rather than trying to know precisely which systems use it,
113 ;; let's assume this dir is never used for anything else.
114 ((file-exists-p "/var/mail")
115 "/var/mail/")
116 ;; Many GNU/Linux systems use this name.
117 ((file-exists-p "/var/spool/mail")
118 "/var/spool/mail/")
119 ((memq system-type '(dgux hpux usg-unix-v unisoft-unix rtu irix))
120 "/usr/mail/")
121 (t "/usr/spool/mail/"))
122 "Name of directory used by system mailer for delivering new mail.
123 Its name should end with a slash.")
124
125 (defconst sendmail-program
126 (cond
127 ((file-exists-p "/usr/sbin/sendmail") "/usr/sbin/sendmail")
128 ((file-exists-p "/usr/lib/sendmail") "/usr/lib/sendmail")
129 ((file-exists-p "/usr/ucblib/sendmail") "/usr/ucblib/sendmail")
130 (t "fakemail")) ;In ../etc, to interface to /bin/mail.
131 "Program used to send messages.")
132
133 (defconst remote-shell-program
134 (cond
135 ;; Some systems use rsh for the remote shell; others use that name for the
136 ;; restricted shell and use remsh for the remote shell. Let's try to guess
137 ;; based on what we actually find out there. The restricted shell is
138 ;; almost certainly in /bin or /usr/bin, so it's probably safe to assume
139 ;; that an rsh found elsewhere is the remote shell program. The converse
140 ;; is not true: /usr/bin/rsh could be either one, so check that last.
141 ((file-exists-p "/usr/ucb/remsh") "/usr/ucb/remsh")
142 ((file-exists-p "/usr/bsd/remsh") "/usr/bsd/remsh")
143 ((file-exists-p "/bin/remsh") "/bin/remsh")
144 ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/remsh") "/usr/bin/remsh")
145 ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/bin/remsh") "/usr/local/bin/remsh")
146 ((file-exists-p "/usr/ucb/rsh") "/usr/ucb/rsh")
147 ((file-exists-p "/usr/bsd/rsh") "/usr/bsd/rsh")
148 ((file-exists-p "/usr/local/bin/rsh") "/usr/local/bin/rsh")
149 ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/rcmd") "/usr/bin/rcmd")
150 ((file-exists-p "/bin/rcmd") "/bin/rcmd")
151 ((file-exists-p "/bin/rsh") "/bin/rsh")
152 ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/rsh") "/usr/bin/rsh")
153 (t "rsh")))
154
155 (defconst term-file-prefix (if (eq system-type 'vax-vms) "[.term]" "term/")
156 "If non-nil, Emacs startup does (load (concat term-file-prefix (getenv \"TERM\")))
157 You may set this variable to nil in your `.emacs' file if you do not wish
158 the terminal-initialization file to be loaded.")
159
160 (defconst abbrev-file-name
161 (if (eq system-type 'vax-vms)
162 "~/abbrev.def"
163 (convert-standard-filename "~/.abbrev_defs"))
164 "*Default name of file to read abbrevs from.")
165
166 ;;; paths.el ends here