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Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes:

> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>=20
> > Is that really true that wais needs:
> > `nnir-wais-remove-prefix'?  It doesn't default to /home/$USER/Mail/?
>=20
> It defaults to "$HOME/Mail/".  Which is the same thing in many cases,
> but at work my home dir is /home-local/grossjoh...

That seems the most appropriate
>=20
> Should it default to (file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name "~/Mail/")=
)?

No, I think not.. What I was commenting on was that the doc string
says:
"Note that you have to set additional variables for most backends.  For
example, the `wais' backend needs the variables `nnir-wais-program',
`nnir-wais-database' and `nnir-wais-remove-prefix'.

When in fact most people will not have to set the `remove prefix' but
will have to set the other two.

It wasn't a complaint, or cause for change, only made me wonder if I
should have been setting that explicitly, which of course would hurt
nothing.