Re: gnus IMAP vs. Exchange Server 2007

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> "Mat Marcus" <mat-lists@emarcus.org>:

> Thanks for the reply. This variable is just what I need. C-h v
> indicates that it is not present in the version of gnus that I have
> (see 3, above). Do I just grab an arbitrary nightly snapshot and
> replace my lisp/gnus folder?

I wouldn't have done that.  I would have unpacked the nightly snapshot,
or perhaps just checked out the current CVS in a separate place, and add
the lisp subdirectory to load-path and the info subdirectory to
Info-directory-list.

Below are the fragments from my ~/.emacs to make the CVS version of Gnus
be the Gnus that emacs uses.  They are a bit complicated, because they
are trying to handle both emacs and XEmacs, and emacs on windows
(ie. they can be simplified a lot).


(defvar windows-emacs (string-match "mingw" (emacs-version))
  "Hold a numerical value if this is an Emacs running on Windows, and
nil if this isn't windows")

(defvar cvs-workspace
  (if windows-emacs
      (expand-file-name "~/workspacecvs/")
    (expand-file-name "~/cvs/"))
   "The place where I check out CVS workspaces.  On linux I like this to 
be lowercase \"cvs\" for shortness.  But on Win32, that name conflicts 
with the \"CVS\" directory in my CVS-versioned home directory, so it has 
to be something different.")

;; CVS version of Gnus:
(let ((cvs-gnus-directory
       (if (string-match "XEmacs" emacs-version)
	   (concat cvs-workspace "gnus.xemacs")
	   (concat cvs-workspace "gnus"))))
  (add-to-list 'load-path (concat cvs-gnus-directory "/lisp"))
  (let ((cvs-gnus-info-dir (concat cvs-gnus-directory "/texi")))
    (if (boundp 'Info-directory-list)
	(add-to-list 'Info-directory-list cvs-gnus-info-dir)
      (setq Info-directory-list (append
				 (list cvs-gnus-info-dir)
				 Info-default-directory-list)))))