From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Specifying location of .newsrc, News & Mail directories etc.
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:43:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yb0sk0za33s.fsf@dod.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i7hps0$gas$1@dough.gmane.org>
>>>>> Gary <gnus@garydjones.name>:
> It being gnus, I'm sure it's possible, but how?
> What I am trying to do is ensure that if I use cygwin emacs' gnus or the
> WinNT emacs' gnus, I always use the same emacs files. The typical
> .gnus.el and so on are no problem, but I don't know how to specify the
> location of all the support files, draft directories, and so on.
Try putting HOME as an enviroment variable. Then they should both work
relative off that as "~". Setting HOME short circuits the heuristics
used by NT emacs for determining "~", I think...?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-24 9:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-24 9:09 Gary
2010-09-24 9:43 ` Steinar Bang [this message]
2010-09-24 9:56 ` David Edmondson
2010-09-24 13:26 ` Gary
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