* Specifying location of .newsrc, News & Mail directories etc.
@ 2010-09-24 9:09 Gary
2010-09-24 9:43 ` Steinar Bang
2010-09-24 9:56 ` David Edmondson
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From: Gary @ 2010-09-24 9:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
It being gnus, I'm sure it's possible, but how?
What I am trying to do is ensure that if I use cygwin emacs' gnus or the
WinNT emacs' gnus, I always use the same emacs files. The typical
.gnus.el and so on are no problem, but I don't know how to specify the
location of all the support files, draft directories, and so on.
I see
,----[ gnus-directory variable help ]
| gnus-directory is a variable defined in `gnus.el'.
| Its value is "~/News/"
|
| Documentation:
| *Directory variable from which all other Gnus file variables are derived.
|
| Note that Gnus is mostly loaded when the `.gnus.el' file is read.
| This means that other directory variables that are initialized from
| this variable won't be set properly if you set this variable in `.gnus.el'.
| Set this variable in `.emacs' instead.
`----
but does that cover everything? For example .newsrc, .newsrc.eld (any
others?) are above that directory - are they covered?
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Gary Please do NOT send me 'courtesy' replies off-list.
GNU Emacs 23.2.1
emacsclient 23.2
1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 Cygwin
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* Re: Specifying location of .newsrc, News & Mail directories etc.
2010-09-24 9:09 Specifying location of .newsrc, News & Mail directories etc Gary
@ 2010-09-24 9:43 ` Steinar Bang
2010-09-24 9:56 ` David Edmondson
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From: Steinar Bang @ 2010-09-24 9:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
>>>>> Gary <gnus@garydjones.name>:
> It being gnus, I'm sure it's possible, but how?
> What I am trying to do is ensure that if I use cygwin emacs' gnus or the
> WinNT emacs' gnus, I always use the same emacs files. The typical
> .gnus.el and so on are no problem, but I don't know how to specify the
> location of all the support files, draft directories, and so on.
Try putting HOME as an enviroment variable. Then they should both work
relative off that as "~". Setting HOME short circuits the heuristics
used by NT emacs for determining "~", I think...?
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* Re: Specifying location of .newsrc, News & Mail directories etc.
2010-09-24 9:09 Specifying location of .newsrc, News & Mail directories etc Gary
2010-09-24 9:43 ` Steinar Bang
@ 2010-09-24 9:56 ` David Edmondson
2010-09-24 13:26 ` Gary
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: David Edmondson @ 2010-09-24 9:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
* gnus@garydjones.name [2010-09-24 Fri 10:09]
> It being gnus, I'm sure it's possible, but how?
I have:
(setq
; keep things out of my home directory
message-directory "~/v/Mail/"
gnus-directory "~/v/News/"
gnus-cache-directory "~/v/cache"
; don't abuse .newsrc
gnus-startup-file (expand-file-name "~/v/newsrc")
gnus-kill-files-directory "~/u/lib/gnus"
)
dme.
--
David Edmondson, http://dme.org
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* Re: Specifying location of .newsrc, News & Mail directories etc.
2010-09-24 9:56 ` David Edmondson
@ 2010-09-24 13:26 ` Gary
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From: Gary @ 2010-09-24 13:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
David Edmondson wrote:
> I have:
>
> (setq
> ; keep things out of my home directory
> message-directory "~/v/Mail/"
> gnus-directory "~/v/News/"
> gnus-cache-directory "~/v/cache"
> ; don't abuse .newsrc
> gnus-startup-file (expand-file-name "~/v/newsrc")
> gnus-kill-files-directory "~/u/lib/gnus"
> )
Thanks. It seems fine now, apart from another problem related to my sig
generation, but that's not your problem :)
--
Gary Please do NOT send me 'courtesy' replies off-list.
GNU Emacs 23.2.1
emacsclient 23.2
1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 Cygwin
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