gnus-use-long-filenames

gnus-use-long-filenames

[Harry Putnam]

My understanding is that in order to use 'agent' successfully,
gnus-use-long-filenames must be set to 'nil'

Following this notion, I have that variable set to 'nil' consequently
any score files I make are also in unix style file format.  This causes
gnus to go on a lengthy search for all score files through a deeply nested
file structure.  Quite time consuming, and can take upwards of a minute.

I understand from snippets and hints from Lars, that this can be
arranged where the score files are in long file name format.  Making
this search take considerable less time.  And further that this is
explained somewhere in the Gnus Info.

I am hoping someone will break all precedence and actually give a
straight forward clue as to how this might be done and/or where in Info
the details might be found.

-- 

Harry Putnam  reader@newsguy.com

Re: gnus-use-long-filenames

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> My understanding is that in order to use 'agent' successfully,
> gnus-use-long-filenames must be set to 'nil'

No, that shouldn't be necessary.  (Well, there isn't such a variable,
but there is `gnus-use-long-file-name', which I guess is what you
mean.) 

> I understand from snippets and hints from Lars, that this can be
> arranged where the score files are in long file name format.  Making
> this search take considerable less time.  And further that this is
> explained somewhere in the Gnus Info.

`C-h v' is your friend:

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gnus-use-long-file-name's value is t

Documentation:
*Non-nil means that the default name of a file to save articles in is the group name.
If it's nil, the directory form of the group name is used instead.

If this variable is a list, and the list contains the element
`not-score', long file names will not be used for score files; if it
contains the element `not-save', long file names will not be used for
saving; and if it contains the element `not-kill', long file names
will not be used for kill files.

Note that the default for this variable varies according to what system
type you're using.  On `usg-unix-v' and `xenix' this variable defaults
to nil while on all other systems it defaults to t.
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So if you set this to `(not-score)', you'll get long file names for
everything but score files, which is the opposite of what you want.  :-)

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