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From: Michael Olson <mwolson@member.fsf.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: advising gnus - a report from the front lines
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 22:16:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r6bscmem.fsf@grepfind.mwolson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87od6yhgyg.fsf@burly.wgtn.ondioline.org> (Paul Collins's message of "Thu, 22 May 2008 20:37:59 +1200")

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Paul Collins <paul@burly.ondioline.org> writes:

> I recently added the following piece of advice:
>
>     (defadvice gnus (before gnus-homedir-advice activate)
>        (cd (expand-file-name "~/")))
>
> This is so that subprocesses started by Gnus (e.g. my IMAP wossname)
> don't end up with a network directory as their cwd.  However, advising
> the `gnus' function makes its check for compiled-ness trip, which is
> annoying since I habitually recall *Group* with `M-x gnus RET'.  I've
> removed the check from my local copy, but it might be nice to fix it
> in Gnus so that it doesn't trip others up.

Setting `gnus-default-directory' might help.  Maybe the
`gnus-set-default-directory' function could force the current directory
to be something sane if (file-remote-p default-directory) is non-nil.

-- 
|       Michael Olson  |  FSF Associate Member #652     |
| http://mwolson.org/  |  Hobbies: Lisp, HCoop          |
| Projects: Emacs, Muse, ERC, EMMS, ErBot, DVC, Planner |
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-24  5:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-22  8:37 Paul Collins
2008-05-24  5:16 ` Michael Olson [this message]
2008-05-25  0:30   ` Paul Collins
2008-05-24  6:27 ` Daniel Pittman

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