From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64774 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Emacs 22.1 windows port, gnus and $HOME issues Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:37:34 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181063096 28269 80.91.229.12 (5 Jun 2007 17:04:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:04:56 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M13285@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jun 05 19:04:54 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 1HvcSk-0000OJ-6m for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:04:54 +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 1HvcRs-0006wU-Kp; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:04:00 -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 1HvcRp-0006w7-F7 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:03:57 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1HvcRo-0002QS-1V for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:03:57 -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 1HvcRm-0005Ab-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:03:54 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HvcRc-0008Gy-Jb for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:03:44 +0200 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.10.123]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:03:44 +0200 Original-Received: from Reiner.Steib by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:03:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 58 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de X-Face: 'bg&jY[8V'W&:=~6w"|>}#4/T;w~36ei4NNMyKRR.a$n=$|sWFPF1y]a\>6kc\*#GN]UDM| Ywv,vbL^XF1nIp\:F=$Ei2o&mEe:%N~,:3]vtQ~s9u$9izmX$IF@VgGl7/,^dbuM<3|AO2}.%|%?kZ 2Y=@\U!~cll^=8Z9ihKq%wmUe1Ky(#kl3T'>Qk0Ia3mCBsTk?E(,X Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AOGLPIN/43bqK+de8tDOjTeas08= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64774 Archived-At: 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. > > 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. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/