From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/85178 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?B?S2FuLVJ1IENoZW4gKOmZs+S+g+Wmgik=?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Change location of .newsrc.eld file? Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:11:39 +0800 Message-ID: <87siidkhtw.fsf@kanru-mozilla.corp.tpe1.mozilla.com> References: <87h9yt3nrb.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414138333 7207 80.91.229.3 (24 Oct 2014 08:12:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 08:12:13 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M33422@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Oct 24 10:12:06 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XhZyf-0001r3-Nd for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:12:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1XhZyU-0000Ab-VP; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 03:11:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1XhZyS-0000A1-Ai for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 03:11:52 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1XhZyQ-00058z-V7 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 03:11:52 -0500 Original-Received: from zmmta2.corp.phx1.mozilla.com ([63.245.216.73] helo=mail.mozilla.com) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XhZyO-00013Z-U1 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:11:49 +0200 Original-Received: from mail.mozilla.com (localhost6.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by zmmta2.mail.corp.phx1.mozilla.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 578271020BD for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 01:11:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from kanru-mozilla.corp.tpe1.mozilla.com (zlb1.mail.corp.phx1.mozilla.com [10.20.77.200]) (Authenticated sender: kchen@mozilla.com) by zmmta2.mail.corp.phx1.mozilla.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 293D110202E for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 01:11:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=kanru-mozilla.corp.tpe1.mozilla.com) by kanru-mozilla.corp.tpe1.mozilla.com with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XhZyF-00025z-G8 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:11:39 +0800 In-Reply-To: <87h9yt3nrb.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Fri, 24 Oct 2014 08:55:36 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.51 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -3.5 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:85178 Archived-At: Eric S Fraga writes: > On Friday, 24 Oct 2014 at 15:44, Paul W. Rankin wrote: >> Can I customize the path of the .newsrc.eld file? I'd like to store it >> inside another folder that I can sync to Dropbox. > > You haven't said what system you use. On Linux, I simply leave the gnus > configuration alone but create a symbolic link from ~/.newsrc.eld to the > actual file in the synced directory. You could customize the `gnus-startup-file' variable for .newsrc or customize the `gnus-home-directory' variable for all Gnus files. Kanru