* Make mail-source files/directories use gnus-home-directory?
@ 2001-01-24 2:35 David Z Maze
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From: David Z Maze @ 2001-01-24 2:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
lisp/mail-source.el has a couple of variable declarations that look
like
(defcustom mail-source-crash-box "~/.emacs-mail-crash-box" ...)
(defcustom mail-source-directory "~/Mail/" ...)
Shouldn't these be based on gnus-home-directory instead? This would
give a little more consistency with the rest of Gnus; in my particular
case, the place gnus-home-directory points to has a lot more quota
than $HOME does. So, you'd have (starting at line 223 of mail-source.el):
(defcustom mail-source-crash-box
(nnheader-concat gnus-home-directory ".emacs-mail-crash-box")
"File where mail will be stored while processing it."
:group 'mail-source
:type 'file)
(defcustom mail-source-directory
(nnheader-concat gnus-home-directory "Mail/")
"Directory where files (if any) will be stored."
:group 'mail-source
:type 'directory)
The one other occurence of ~ is in mail-source-keyword-map; I *think*
it's the default directory for a maildir mail source if one appears.
I don't know a whole lot about how these sorts of systems usually
work, but I'd guess a subdirectory of the user's home directory is
more likely than wherever they told Gnus to start up. Hmm.
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