From: "François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: unwanted News and News/drafts directories
Date: 22 Sep 1998 13:29:17 -400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <oqaf3st5si.fsf@icule.progiciels-bpi.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Justin Sheehy's message of "22 Sep 1998 11:44:34 -400"
Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org> writes:
> John H Palmieri <John.H.Palmieri.2@nd.edu> writes:
> > I would like to keep all of my mail and news files in the directory
> > ~/Mail, so I've put the following in my .gnus file:
> >
> > (setq gnus-directory (expand-file-name "~/Mail/News")
> > gnus-kill-files-directory (expand-file-name "~/Mail/News")
> > gnus-dribble-directory (expand-file-name "~/Mail/News")
> > gnus-nocem-directory (expand-file-name "~/Mail/News/NoCeM")
> > nndraft-directory (expand-file-name "~/Mail/News"))
> Move that from ~/.gnus to ~/.emacs, so that those variables are set
> when Gnus starts.
Is that move really needed? I preset all directory variables for Gnus in my
`.gnus' file instead of `.emacs'; it seems to work as expected for me.
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-09-22 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-16 19:20 John H Palmieri
1998-09-19 12:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-22 15:44 ` Justin Sheehy
1998-09-22 17:29 ` François Pinard [this message]
1998-09-22 18:25 ` Justin Sheehy
1998-09-23 12:56 ` François Pinard
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