Variable: woman-path

woman-path is a customizable variable defined in woman.el.gz.

Value

nil

Documentation

List of SPECIFIC DIRECTORIES to search for UN*X manual files.

For example

  ("/emacs/etc").

These directories are searched in addition to the directory trees specified in woman-manpath. Each element should be a directory string or nil, which represents the current directory when the path is expanded and cached. However, the last component (only) of each directory string is treated as a regexp (Emacs, not shell) and the string is expanded into a list of matching directories. Non-directory and unreadable files are ignored. The default value is nil.

Any environment variables (which must have the UN*X-style form $NAME, e.g. $HOME, $EMACSDATA, $emacs_dir) are evaluated first but each element must evaluate to a SINGLE directory name (regexp, see above). For example

  ("$EMACSDATA") [or equivalently ("$emacs_dir/etc")].

Trailing /s are discarded. (The directory trees in woman-manpath
are also searched.) On Microsoft platforms I recommend including
drive letters explicitly.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/woman.el.gz
(defcustom woman-path
  (if (eq system-type 'ms-dos) '("$DJDIR/info" "$DJDIR/man/cat[1-9onlp]"))
  "List of SPECIFIC DIRECTORIES to search for UN*X manual files.
For example

  (\"/emacs/etc\").

These directories are searched in addition to the directory trees
specified in `woman-manpath'.  Each element should be a directory
string or nil, which represents the current directory when the path is
expanded and cached.  However, the last component (only) of each
directory string is treated as a regexp \(Emacs, not shell) and the
string is expanded into a list of matching directories.  Non-directory
and unreadable files are ignored.  The default value is nil.

Any environment variables (which must have the UN*X-style form $NAME,
e.g. $HOME, $EMACSDATA, $emacs_dir) are evaluated first but each
element must evaluate to a SINGLE directory name (regexp, see above).
For example

  (\"$EMACSDATA\") [or equivalently (\"$emacs_dir/etc\")].

Trailing `/'s are discarded.  (The directory trees in `woman-manpath'
are also searched.)  On Microsoft platforms I recommend including
drive letters explicitly."
  :type '(repeat (choice string (const nil)))
  :group 'woman-interface)