Re: Emacs 22.1 windows port, gnus and $HOME issues

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

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.
>
> 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:/")

If you choose option (3) i.e. `gnus-home-directory', the setting the
following variables (option (4)) should not be necessary:

> (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")

Not used in Gnus:

> (setq mail-default-directory "c:/Mail")

Probably necessary for BBDB:

> (setq bbdb-file "c:/.bbdb")

> 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.

If you don't load nnfolder.el[c], the nnfolder variable aren't
defined.

Bye, Reiner.
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