Re: How to change the default ~/Mail and ~/News dirs with their subdirs?

[asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)]

On Sat,  3 Sep 2005 21:14:33 +0200, romeomedina\@libero\.it wrote:

>> I'd like to change the gnus default `~/Mail' and '~/News' directories,
>> together with all their subdirectories:
>> '~/Mail/drafts', '~/Mail/queue', '~/Mail/mail/misc',
>> '~/News/agent', '~/News/lib' etcetera,
>> into other dirs and subdirs at my pleasure.

> Adam Sjøgren wrote:

>> Just out of curiosity: Why?

> Because I want to decide where to put my stuff,

This is not an answer, this is a restatement of your goal.

> and besides: I'm totally new to the 'newrseaderly fashion' gnus is
> conceived, and I still haven't even well understood what a
> newsreader actually is.

How is your understanding of what a newsreader is connected to where
Gnus puts its files?

[...]

> So I don't understand the meaning of subdirectories such as 'agent',
> 'lib', 'queue', and so on. Now, as beginner, I only need three
> directories: received-mail, sent-mail and drafts, included under a
> superdirectory 'mail'.

As a beginner, how do you know this? How can you know whether the
programme, Gnus, needs those directories that you don't know the
meaning of (yet)? How can you tell if they are important - for some
internal use - or not?

I would expect a beginner to customize *as little as possible* until
further understanding is achieved...?

> I followed your indications, then performed searches in Gnus Manual
> from info buffer.

Reading the manual is always a good idea :-)

[...]

> . Now, I want to get rid of the subdirs 'agent', 'agent/lib' and 'queue'.

Why do you want this; why do you care whether they exist or not?

(I don't know how. I'm still curious as to why).


  Best regards,

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 "If I claimed I was emperor just cause some moistened        Adam Sjøgren
  bint lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away"       asjo@koldfront.dk