none of them particularly nice. Agreed.
Maybe you could specify "NODEFAULT" as one of the directories That feature of derivation-from-PATH is so bizarre and unlike anything else, extending it for other purposes seems even uglier than a second envvar to me. Here's another idea: a command-line option (for convenience in the tests) and .infokey variable (for convenience for users), e.g., --infopath-no-default infopath-no-default This is no good, I know.) Right, extra colons aren't the way to go. k