Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
>
> Hi Rainer,
>
>> I would like to have all gnus related files in one directory (~/.gnus
>> or ~/.emacs.d/gnus - undecided still) but I would obviously like to
>> keep my configs, newsgroups subscriptions, ...
>>
>> So which files / directories do I have to move to have all this
>> available?
>>
>> There is also the gnus-directory - Is this automatically changed to
>> gnus-home-directory/News/ if I change the gnus-home-directory?
>
> I also wanted to have most gnus stuff (especially News and Mail) in some
> hidden directory (I called in ~/.gnus.d/).  Therefore I have
>
> (setq gnus-home-directory    "~/.gnus.d/"
>       gnus-init-file	     "~/.gnus.el"
>       message-directory (expand-file-name "Mail/"
> gnus-home-directory))
>
> in my ~/.emacs (it must be in ~/.emacs rather than ~/.gnus.el so that
> the variable is already set to my likings when gnus is loaded).
>
> Using that setup, ~/.gnus.d/ contains the Mail and News folders, and
> also the .newsrc, .newsrc.eld, and .gnus.registry.eieio files.  I've
> simply moved them from $HOME in there.

Thanks - just did the same and everything is still there - I actiualy
like the ide of the hidden . folder

In addition, I set the gnus-init-file to ~/.emacs.d/gnus.el - but I
might move it to the .gnus folder.

Cheers,

Rainer

>
> HTH,
> Tassilo

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