Specifying location of .newsrc, News & Mail directories etc.

Specifying location of .newsrc, News & Mail directories etc.

[Gary]

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

Re: Specifying location of .newsrc, News & Mail directories etc.

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> 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...?

Re: Specifying location of .newsrc, News & Mail directories etc.

[David Edmondson]

* 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.
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David Edmondson, http://dme.org

Re: Specifying location of .newsrc, News & Mail directories etc.

[Gary]

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 :)

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GNU Emacs 23.2.1
emacsclient 23.2
1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 Cygwin