From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64777 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Shanks N Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Emacs 22.1 windows port, gnus and $HOME issues Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:23:47 +0530 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181141740 14096 80.91.229.12 (6 Jun 2007 14:55:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 14:55:40 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M13288@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jun 06 16:55:39 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HvwvC-0001kf-MG for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:55:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hvwtx-0005r7-1S; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:54:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hvwtv-0005qp-0I for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:54:19 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Hvwts-000304-Pd for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:54:18 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Hvwtr-0000ET-00 for ; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:54:15 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Hvwtf-00013I-7g for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:54:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 59.92.146.253 ([59.92.146.253]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:54:03 +0200 Original-Received: from shanks.n by 59.92.146.253 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:54:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 65 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.92.146.253 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:thVTwkqhm/+9K8AcXYdj07D5kDM= X-Spam-Score: -1.1 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64777 Archived-At: Reiner Steib writes: > On Tue, Jun 05 2007, Shanks N wrote: > >> Reiner Steib writes: >>> There are several options (recommended options listed first): >>> >>> (1) Move the (Gnus) files and directories from >>> c:\ to ...\\Application Data\ >>> >>> (2) Set the environment variable HOME to C:\, the Emacs will use this >>> instead of ...\\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 --