;; GNU General Public License for more details.
;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
-;; the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
+;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
;;; Commentary:
(configdir (file-name-as-directory configure-info-directory)))
(setq start (nconc start (list configdir)))
start)
- "List of directories to search for Info documentation files.
-They are searched in the order they are given in this list.
+ "Default list of directories to search for Info documentation files.
+They are searched in the order they are given in the list.
Therefore, the directory of Info files that come with Emacs
-normally should come last (so that local files override standard ones).")
+normally should come last (so that local files override standard ones).
-(defvar news-path "/usr/spool/news/"
+Once Info is started, the list of directories to search
+comes from the variable `Info-directory-list'.
+This variable `Info-default-directory-list' is used as the default
+for initializing `Info-directory-list' when Info is started.")
+
+(defvar news-path
+ (if (file-exists-p "/usr/spool/news/")
+ "/usr/spool/news/"
+ "/var/spool/news/")
"The root directory below which all news files are stored.")
(defvar news-inews-program
(cond ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/inews") "/usr/bin/inews")
((file-exists-p "/usr/local/inews") "/usr/local/inews")
((file-exists-p "/usr/local/bin/inews") "/usr/local/bin/inews")
+ ((file-exists-p "/usr/contrib/lib/news/inews") "/usr/contrib/lib/news/inews")
((file-exists-p "/usr/lib/news/inews") "/usr/lib/news/inews")
(t "inews"))
"Program to post news.")
Go to a local news spool if its value is nil, in which case `gnus-nntp-server'
should be set to `(system-name)'.")
-(defvar gnus-local-domain nil
- "*Your domain name without a host name: for example, \"ai.mit.edu\".
-The DOMAINNAME environment variable is used instead if defined.
-If the function `system-name' returns a fully qualified domain name,
-there is no need to set this variable.")
-
(defvar gnus-local-organization nil
"*The name of your organization, as a string.
The `ORGANIZATION' environment variable is used instead if defined.")
;; let's assume this dir is never used for anything else.
((file-exists-p "/var/mail")
"/var/mail/")
+ ;; Many GNU/Linux systems use this name.
+ ((file-exists-p "/var/spool/mail")
+ "/var/spool/mail/")
((memq system-type '(dgux hpux usg-unix-v unisoft-unix rtu irix))
"/usr/mail/")
(t "/usr/spool/mail/"))
(defconst sendmail-program
(cond
- ((file-exists-p "/usr/lib/sendmail") "/usr/lib/sendmail")
((file-exists-p "/usr/sbin/sendmail") "/usr/sbin/sendmail")
+ ((file-exists-p "/usr/lib/sendmail") "/usr/lib/sendmail")
((file-exists-p "/usr/ucblib/sendmail") "/usr/ucblib/sendmail")
(t "fakemail")) ;In ../etc, to interface to /bin/mail.
"Program used to send messages.")
((file-exists-p "/usr/ucb/rsh") "/usr/ucb/rsh")
((file-exists-p "/usr/bsd/rsh") "/usr/bsd/rsh")
((file-exists-p "/usr/local/bin/rsh") "/usr/local/bin/rsh")
+ ((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/rcmd") "/usr/bin/rcmd")
+ ((file-exists-p "/bin/rcmd") "/bin/rcmd")
((file-exists-p "/bin/rsh") "/bin/rsh")
((file-exists-p "/usr/bin/rsh") "/usr/bin/rsh")
(t "rsh")))
(defconst abbrev-file-name
(if (eq system-type 'vax-vms)
"~/abbrev.def"
- "~/.abbrev_defs")
+ (convert-standard-filename "~/.abbrev_defs"))
"*Default name of file to read abbrevs from.")
;;; paths.el ends here