From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60879 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sj=F8gren?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How to change the default ~/Mail and ~/News dirs with their subdirs? Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 23:22:50 +0200 Organization: koldfront - analysis & revolution, Copenhagen, Denmark Message-ID: <878xydzw0l.fsf@koldfront.dk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1125783066 28649 80.91.229.2 (3 Sep 2005 21:31:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 21:31:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m9411=ding+2daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Sep 03 23:31:00 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EBfa3-0008VK-9G for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 23:29:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EBfa2-0007O9-02 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 16:29:42 -0500 Original-Received: from nas01.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.39]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1EBfVp-0007O1-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 16:25:21 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas01.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1EBfVn-0000IM-Fw for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 16:25:21 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1EBfVk-0001gj-00 for ; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 23:25:16 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EBfUQ-0007rL-3R for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 23:23:54 +0200 Original-Received: from 0x50a5b872.bynxx12.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk ([80.165.184.114]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 23:23:54 +0200 Original-Received: from asjo by 0x50a5b872.bynxx12.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 03 Sep 2005 23:23:54 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 57 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 0x50a5b872.bynxx12.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk X-Face: &DfBw60^ZxI8hd?J%t&_8wW?SLF%BBx<2XQ+sXYpX!?{=0C?9D{Nc`;Eq<0d=-L User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) XEmacs/21.4.17 (linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uLjwitrrhoss0B2HZfOd+ET67RU= X-Spam-Score: -1.3 (-) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60879 Archived-At: 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, -- "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