From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/10217 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Edward J. Sabol" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: permissions of dribble file Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 14:41:34 -0500 Message-ID: <199703131941.OAA06017@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035150124 23158 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:42:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:42:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA07856 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 11:52:12 -0800 Original-Received: from alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov (alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov [128.183.127.237]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 20:41:50 +0100 Original-Received: by alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov (950413.SGI.8.6.12/951211.SGI.AUTO) id OAA06017; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 14:41:34 -0500 Original-To: palmieri@math.mit.edu In-reply-to: (message from John Palmieri on 13 Mar 1997 12:10:24 -0500) Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10217 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10217 Other people have made their suggestions. Here's what I prefer: % mkdir ~/.private % chmod 700 ~/.private % mv ~/.newsrc* ~/.private/ % ln -s ~/.private/.newsrc ~/.newsrc And add the following to your .emacs: (setq my-private-directory (expand-file-name "~/.private")) (setq gnus-startup-file (concat my-private-directory "/.newsrc")) And for mail and message buffers: (add-hook 'mail-mode-hook (function (lambda () (let ((default-directory my-private-directory)) (rename-auto-save-file))))) (add-hook 'message-mode-hook (function (lambda () (let ((default-directory my-private-directory)) (rename-auto-save-file))))) Later, Ed