From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80831 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Syncing Gnus Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:11:09 +0100 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: <94nw7go3m.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> References: Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325974317 6831 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2012 22:11:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2012 22:11:57 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M29113@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Jan 07 23:11:52 2012 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RjeUQ-0001AQ-BC for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:11:50 +0100 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 1RjeU6-00085X-BC; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:11:30 -0600 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 1RjeU5-00085S-Bs for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:11:29 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RjeU4-0005qZ-B8 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:11:29 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RjeU2-0007Mf-Tp for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:11:26 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RjeU2-0000wK-LW for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:11:26 +0100 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:11:26 +0100 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 23:11:26 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 64 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:v7DdSlgGQtw0mXUB9pjHW7zsXwU= X-Spam-Score: -2.8 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80831 Archived-At: Richard Riley 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.