(2022-03-16, 7:46)Roland Melkert Wrote: What would be the advantage of that?
The advantage would be that this is that this is how it's always been (in ldraw.exe, ledit.exe, LDView, l3p, and probably other LDraw programs). Obviously, since there has been no official documentation of the search path, this behavior might not be widely known. But I don't think that's an excuse not to include it in the official search path now that we are documenting it.
Lars C. Hassing's LDrawIni code (which LDView and l3p for sure use, and possibly other programs) have always used it as the first entry in the default search path (ignoring MPD subfiles which have to be dealt with separately).