I'm trying to reset the search priority for loading objects and stuff. My motivation for this proposal/Pull Request is to have externals from the 'extra'; library have a priority over other externals. I was able to partially deal with this here: https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/commit/d5296b3432a13a72f71bdf090e40a552b52ef92b 

By working on Pd's manual, I can see the current priority is to look first in the directory containing the patch, then in the search paths. I still want to maintain that structure. I just think that the order of the paths should be different, first with "standard paths" (which includes 'extra') then the user added paths.

Anyway, the thing is that I can't really find where I could change this search priority list...

help?

Oh, and if you think this shouldn't be done in the first place for any reason, just let me know :) 

thanks