From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28121 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hannu Koivisto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: message-auto-save-directory affects auto-saving in Gnus Date: 12 Dec 1999 01:37:49 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <874sdpm4ky.fsf@senstation.vvf.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035165026 28238 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:50:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:50:26 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA04770 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 18:39:20 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAB29808; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 17:39:12 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 11 Dec 1999 17:39:03 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA00505 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 17:38:54 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from senstation.vvf.fi (senstation.vvf.fi [195.74.10.211]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA04765 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 1999 18:38:29 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from azure by senstation.vvf.fi with local (Exim 3.03 #1 (Debian)) id 11ww5G-0001Hs-00; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 01:37:50 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28121 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28121 Greetings, I guess that the documentation (of that variable) """ *Directory where Message auto-saves buffers if Gnus isn't running. If nil, Message won't auto-save. """ can be interpreted so that when the value of that variable is NIL, Message will never auto-save (including when it is being run under Gnus), and when it is something else, then Gnus finds its own auto-save location anyway (which it demonstrably does; if I let that variable have the default value "~/Mail/drafts/", Gnus still finds a way to save my articles to a "~/News/drafts/drafts" directory, which is very good since that's where my drafts folder is (although I'm not sure why)) and only when used stand-alone, Message uses that value. For some reason I think that is silly. Anyway, I want Message not to auto-save when it is used stand-alone but I want it to auto-save when it is run under Gnus. If the described behaviour of changing that variable is intended, is there any other way to achieve this than to set it when Gnus is invoked and set it again to another value when Message is invoked stand-alone? I would prefer some other approach. -- Hannu