[PD] pd/extra objects don't create in help-intro.pd without adding path

[Joey Dodson]

I did indeed have "use standard paths" disabled for some reason. Enabling
it solved the issue. Thanks Miller! Now I'm curious what the advantage is
to disabling standard paths.

On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 12:54 PM Miller Puckette <msp at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> If you have "use standard paths" disabled in the path preferences this
> could happen.  (It's on purpose :)
>
> cheers
> Miller
>
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 10:33:59AM +0200, Dan Wilcox wrote:
> > What OS and Pd version are you using? How did you install Pd?
> >
> > Pd 0.50-2 on my macOS 10.14 system creates all extra objects in the
> general help patch. As far as I recall, it always has so this sounds like a
> bug or misconfiguration issue.
> >
> > > On Oct 19, 2019, at 11:15 PM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
> > >
> > > I realized that although help-intro.pd (accessible by right clicking a
> > > blank section of canvas and going to Help) lists objects in pd/extra,
> those
> > > objects wouldn't create until I added the path.
> > >
> > > It that the expected default behavior? It seems to me that objects
> included
> > > in Pd vanilla shouldn't require extra path additions or declarations.
> Maybe
> > > there is a good reason for this though that I'm not aware of?
> >
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