Start using gnus-home-directory - what do I have to move?

Start using gnus-home-directory - what do I have to move?

[Rainer M Krug]

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Hi

I would like to have all gnus related files in one directory (~/.gnus or
~/.emacs.d/gnus - undecided still) but I would obviously like to keep my
configs, newsgroups subscriptions, ...

So which files / directories do I have to move to have all this
available?

There is also the gnus-directory - Is this automatically changed to
gnus-home-directory/News/ if I change the gnus-home-directory?

Thanks,

Rainer

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Rainer M. Krug

email: RMKrug<at>gmail<dot>com

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Re: Start using gnus-home-directory - what do I have to move?

[Tassilo Horn]

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Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:

Hi Rainer,

> I would like to have all gnus related files in one directory (~/.gnus
> or ~/.emacs.d/gnus - undecided still) but I would obviously like to
> keep my configs, newsgroups subscriptions, ...
>
> So which files / directories do I have to move to have all this
> available?
>
> There is also the gnus-directory - Is this automatically changed to
> gnus-home-directory/News/ if I change the gnus-home-directory?

I also wanted to have most gnus stuff (especially News and Mail) in some
hidden directory (I called in ~/.gnus.d/).  Therefore I have

(setq gnus-home-directory    "~/.gnus.d/"
      gnus-init-file	     "~/.gnus.el"
      message-directory	     (expand-file-name "Mail/" gnus-home-directory))

in my ~/.emacs (it must be in ~/.emacs rather than ~/.gnus.el so that
the variable is already set to my likings when gnus is loaded).

Using that setup, ~/.gnus.d/ contains the Mail and News folders, and
also the .newsrc, .newsrc.eld, and .gnus.registry.eieio files.  I've
simply moved them from $HOME in there.

HTH,
Tassilo

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Re: Start using gnus-home-directory - what do I have to move?

[Rainer M Krug]

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Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
>
> Hi Rainer,
>
>> I would like to have all gnus related files in one directory (~/.gnus
>> or ~/.emacs.d/gnus - undecided still) but I would obviously like to
>> keep my configs, newsgroups subscriptions, ...
>>
>> So which files / directories do I have to move to have all this
>> available?
>>
>> There is also the gnus-directory - Is this automatically changed to
>> gnus-home-directory/News/ if I change the gnus-home-directory?
>
> I also wanted to have most gnus stuff (especially News and Mail) in some
> hidden directory (I called in ~/.gnus.d/).  Therefore I have
>
> (setq gnus-home-directory    "~/.gnus.d/"
>       gnus-init-file	     "~/.gnus.el"
>       message-directory (expand-file-name "Mail/"
> gnus-home-directory))
>
> in my ~/.emacs (it must be in ~/.emacs rather than ~/.gnus.el so that
> the variable is already set to my likings when gnus is loaded).
>
> Using that setup, ~/.gnus.d/ contains the Mail and News folders, and
> also the .newsrc, .newsrc.eld, and .gnus.registry.eieio files.  I've
> simply moved them from $HOME in there.

Thanks - just did the same and everything is still there - I actiualy
like the ide of the hidden . folder

In addition, I set the gnus-init-file to ~/.emacs.d/gnus.el - but I
might move it to the .gnus folder.

Cheers,

Rainer

>
> HTH,
> Tassilo

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Rainer M. Krug

email: RMKrug<at>gmail<dot>com

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Re: Start using gnus-home-directory - what do I have to move?

[Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:
> I also wanted to have most gnus stuff (especially News and Mail) in some
> hidden directory (I called in ~/.gnus.d/).  Therefore I have
>
> (setq gnus-home-directory    "~/.gnus.d/"
>       gnus-init-file	     "~/.gnus.el"
>       message-directory (expand-file-name "Mail/"
> gnus-home-directory))
>
> in my ~/.emacs (it must be in ~/.emacs rather than ~/.gnus.el so that
> the variable is already set to my likings when gnus is loaded).

I just tried this, thanks for the tip. Gnus was still creating ~/Mail, I
think that also one needs something like:

      (setq nnfolder-directory 
            (expand-file-name "archive/" message-directory))

Best,

Jorge.