From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64762 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: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:50:35 +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 1180990374 25512 80.91.229.12 (4 Jun 2007 20:52:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 20:52:54 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M13273@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Jun 04 22:52:53 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 1HvJXo-0005z8-Fs for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:52:52 +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 1HvJWJ-0007f5-Ev; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:51:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HvJWH-0007ej-UI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:51:17 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1HvJWE-0007qQ-3k for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:51:17 -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 1HvJWD-0002gf-00 for ; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:51:13 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HvJW3-0002st-Dc for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:51:03 +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 ; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:51:03 +0200 Original-Received: from Reiner.Steib by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:51:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de X-Face: #vK]N[`vqjuod*|)'[iD7/"3AB-ApT%fmN"LWAg@oS7OesGv~)n[OBTLM#I="J'Y^-7I I/ps7o_'IK@#-Rs{::DZ@O8yS|fexe,XslY[:dNWOb~>?mC-&i_c)say:"\IpA.5U.b]'NY;Pks{lb h.+#6%DpZuaK3dcHB`Av3zc:r!C%~s0&m,tWj]&},qg.+0ww2gK%f!:GK|wMl.I!(voY*1"^li8"~B BNG)9LvPi?^DMR-GVDnZqhu*3Hi,+g=wFhI)BL6&u{EOVEHjVEVq~d?_}lMntWAc3(6?kftjc>_f>! g0wM(qPM$d5]^TT_Qyi&L?LGVG)SHN;Gk/,pkY9,~ Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HjAMfR/UOrpbCm6PDvFGsiwp2hU= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64762 Archived-At: On Mon, Jun 04 2007, Shanks N wrote: > On windows, the latest Emacs release seems to use > > c:/Documents and settings//Application Data/ as the home path. [...] > I have 0.6 in c:/gnu/elisp/nognus.6/, my Mail and News in c:/Mail and > c:/News. [...] > c:/.gnus.el > c:/.newsrc.eld [...] > What should I do for Gnus? > > In Emacs 22, it creates the Mail, News and eld file under user app > folder while I want it to use the existing one under c:/ 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. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/