From: Shanks N <shanks.n@gmail.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Emacs 22.1 windows port, gnus and $HOME issues
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:23:47 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <utztlxhfo.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9ejkq1ho1.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 05 2007, Shanks N wrote:
>
>> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>>> There are several options (recommended options listed first):
>>>
>>> (1) Move the (Gnus) files and directories from
>>> c:\ to ...\<user>\Application Data\
>>>
>>> (2) Set the environment variable HOME to C:\, the Emacs will use this
>>> instead of ...\<user>\Application Data\
>>>
>>> (3) Set gnus-home-directory to "c:/" in .emacs (or _emacs): Gnus will
>>> (modulo bugs?) use the files and directories from there.
>>>
>>> (4) Set `gnus-directory', `message-directory', ... to your preferred
>>> directories.
>>
[...]
>> (setq gnus-home-directory "c:/")
>
> If you choose option (3) i.e. `gnus-home-directory', the setting the
> following variables (option (4)) should not be necessary:
But it didn't work! The agent,drafts and marks folder are created in C:/
while it was under News folder previously. As a matter of abundant
caution, I set all the variables.
>
>> (setq gnus-directory "c:/")
>> (setq nnml-directory "c:/Mail")
>> (setq nndraft-directory "C:/Mail/drafts/")
>> (setq message-directory "c:/Mail")
>> (setq gnus-article-save-directory "c:/News")
>> (setq gnus-agent-directory "c:/News/agent")
>> (setq gnus-cache-directory "c:/News/cache")
>
[...]
>
> Probably necessary for BBDB:
>
>> (setq bbdb-file "c:/.bbdb")
That is correct.
[...]
> If you don't load nnfolder.el[c], the nnfolder variable aren't
> defined.
>
Ahh, thanks.
shanks
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-06 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-04 17:07 Shanks N
2007-06-04 20:50 ` Reiner Steib
2007-06-05 15:14 ` Shanks N
2007-06-05 16:37 ` Reiner Steib
2007-06-06 14:53 ` Shanks N [this message]
2007-06-11 16:12 ` Shanks N
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