clarify and give an example for PLTCOLLECTS

svn: r11949
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Eli Barzilay 2008-10-06 04:52:21 +00:00
parent c556fd74aa
commit f205e32302

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@ -87,7 +87,15 @@ Produces a list of paths as follows:
defined, it is combined with the default list using
@scheme[path-list-string->path-list]. If it is not defined, the
default collection path list (as constructed by the first three
bullets above) is used directly.}
bullets above) is used directly.
Note that under @|AllUnix|, paths are separated by @litchar{:}, and
under Windows by @litchar{;}. Also,
@scheme[path-list-string->path-list] splices the default paths at an
empty path, for example, with many Unix shells you can set
@envvar{PLTCOLLECTS} to @tt{":`pwd`"}, @tt{"`pwd`:"}, or
@tt{"`pwd`"} to specify search the current directory after, before,
or instead of the default paths respectively.}
}}