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- /* Think twice before editing this file.
-
- The file startup.el guesses at reasonable values for load-path, exec-path,
- and lock-directory. This means that if you move emacs and its associated
- sub-tree to a different place in the filesystem, or to a different machine,
- you won't have to do anything for it to work.
-
- If you define the paths in this file, then you are hardcoding their locations
- into the emacs executable, and if you move emacs to a different place, you
- will have to recompile it.
-
- See the NEWS file for a description of the heuristic used to locate the lisp
- and exec directories at startup time. If you are looking at this file
- because you are having trouble, then you would be much better off arranging
- for those heuristics to succeed than defining the paths in this file.
-
- If it defines anything, this file should define some subset of the following:
-
- PATH_LOADSEARCH The default value of `load-path'.
- If you set this, you must set it to a colon-seperated
- list of the fully-qualified names of the appropriate
- lisp library, and all of its subdirectories.
-
- PATH_EXEC The default value of `exec-directory' and `exec-path'.
- (exec-path also contains the value of whatever is in
- the PATH environment variable.)
-
- PATH_LOCK The name of the directory that contains lock files
- with which we record what files are being modified in
- Emacs. This directory should be writable by everyone.
- If this is specified, the string must end with a slash!
-
- PATH_SUPERLOCK The name of the file !!!SuperLock!!! in the lock
- directory. You probably should let this default...
- */
-