From: Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Syncing Gnus
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:11:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <94nw7go3m.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kfy5tj18qs.fsf@news.eternal-september.org>
Richard Riley <rileyrg@gmail.com> writes:
> This comes up everys now and again and I thought maybe time again.
>
> Who has recently set up gnus so its data is easily synced. There are a
> plethora of location values some I think might overlap - I'm not sure -
> I just know I keep finding News and Mail dirs in in my home dir every
> now and again ;). Ideally there would be ONE variable to set and all
> archives, news and mail and book marks and everything would go under
> there so only that dir would by synced. It would include .newsrc* files
> too.
>
> In particular what is gnus-home-directory?
>
> ,----
> | Directory variable that specifies the "home" directory.
> | All other Gnus file and directory variables are initialized from this variable.
> `----
>
> What does "home" here mean?
>
> Does this refer to Mail/News or where gnus finds it code or both?
>
> Should it not be enough to ONLY set this and the rest follow on?
>
> Maybe I'm overthinking or panicking a little. All I want is ALL gnus
> "runtime"* type data to sit under ONE directory. How is this best achieved?
>
> * :dribble files, newsrc file, killfiles, group subscriptions, articles, caches etc etc etc
>
e.g having used the setting the chap used for the dropbox sync, I end up
with a new News dir in my home dir containing drafts.
,----
| [8992]shamrock@development:~$ ls -l News/
| total 4
| drwxr-xr-x 4 shamrock shamrock 4096 Jan 7 23:00 drafts
| [8993]shamrock@development:~$
`----
saving this article into drafts and restarting and ^ is where its
stored. There doesnt seem be any draft dir setting or?
my current setup (a blatant copy of the dropbox example previously
posted) :
(setq message-directory "~/Dropbox/.main/Mail/"
gnus-home-directory "~/Dropbox/.main/"
gnus-directory "~/Dropbox/.main/News/"
gnus-default-directory "~/Dropbox/.main/"
gnus-dribble-ignore t
gnus-article-save-directory "~/Dropbox/.main/News/"
gnus-kill-files-directory "~/Dropbox/.main/News/"
gnus-cache-directory "~/Dropbox/.main/News/cache/"
)
in addition to this I also have
'(gnus-startup-file "~/Dropbox/.main/.newsrc")
seems overkill, how to simplify?
Old ground, but still confusing and tripping me up.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-07 22:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-07 21:51 Richard Riley
2012-01-07 22:11 ` Richard Riley [this message]
2012-01-08 0:40 ` Richard Riley
2012-01-08 1:40 ` Vitalie Spinu
2012-01-08 13:55 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
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