From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/66992 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Collins Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: advising gnus - a report from the front lines Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 12:30:47 +1200 Message-ID: <87skw7w7go.fsf@burly.wgtn.ondioline.org> References: <87od6yhgyg.fsf@burly.wgtn.ondioline.org> <87r6bscmem.fsf@grepfind.mwolson.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211676183 792 80.91.229.12 (25 May 2008 00:43:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 00:43:03 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M15463@lists.math.uh.edu Sun May 25 02:43:43 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K04Ks-00006n-V1 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 25 May 2008 02:43:43 +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 1K04J9-0002B1-E1; Sat, 24 May 2008 19:41:55 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1K04Dj-00028z-42 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 24 May 2008 19:36:19 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1K04Dd-00057d-9F for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 24 May 2008 19:36:19 -0500 Original-Received: from jenny.ondioline.org ([66.220.1.122]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1K04Ds-0001UZ-00 for ; Sun, 25 May 2008 02:36:28 +0200 Original-Received: by jenny.ondioline.org (Postfix, from userid 10) id 2D7C83A4724; Sun, 25 May 2008 12:36:10 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by burly.wgtn.ondioline.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 00E286273F; Sun, 25 May 2008 12:30:47 +1200 (NZST) In-Reply-To: <87r6bscmem.fsf@grepfind.mwolson.org> (Michael Olson's message of "Fri, 23 May 2008 22:16:01 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:66992 Archived-At: Michael Olson writes: > Paul Collins 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. [snipped] > > Setting `gnus-default-directory' might help. This does what I want, and it's also not terminally broken like I have just realized the piece of advice above is. Changing the cwd of random buffers turns out to cause confusing behaviour. Thanks also Daniel for your informative reply. Regards, -- Paul Collins Wellington, New Zealand Dag vijandelijk luchtschip de huismeester is dood