From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64773 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: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:44:44 +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 1181056533 1873 80.91.229.12 (5 Jun 2007 15:15:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:15:33 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M13284@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jun 05 17:15:29 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 1Hvakm-0005Px-2S for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:15:24 +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 1Hvakg-0006Kf-5e; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:15:18 -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 1Hvake-0006KJ-Mb for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:15:16 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Hvakd-0001Xo-84 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:15:16 -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 1Hvakc-0003GV-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:15:14 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HvakL-0001sn-VC for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:14:58 +0200 Original-Received: from 59.96.43.226 ([59.96.43.226]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:14:57 +0200 Original-Received: from shanks.n by 59.96.43.226 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:14:57 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 53 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.96.43.226 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Kj28XGr8L9hA91Kh2PB/3w/zsyk= X-Spam-Score: -1.1 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64773 Archived-At: Reiner Steib writes: > On Mon, Jun 04 2007, Shanks N wrote: > [...] > > 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. > This is what I had to plug in after a few runs of gnus-no-server in the _Emacs. (setq load-path (cons "c:/gnu/elisp/ngnus-0.6/lisp" load-path)) (require 'gnus-load) (require 'info) (setq Info-default-directory-list (cons "c:/gnu/elisp/ngnus-0.6/texi" Info-default-directory-list)) (setq gnus-home-directory "c:/") (setq gnus-directory "c:/") (setq nnml-directory "c:/Mail") (setq nndraft-directory "C:/Mail/drafts/") (setq bbdb-file "c:/.bbdb") (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") (setq mail-default-directory "c:/Mail") Hopefully, this is all that is required and you can see this post. :) BTW, after launching gnus-no-server, doing an apropos-variable with '-directory' did not show any nnfolder variables. Is there a reason for that? I don't use nnfolder on this machine but nnml. regards, Shanks --