From: romeomedina@libero.it
Subject: Re: nnml directory customization
Date: 17 Sep 2005 00:34:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1126942480.831335.31440@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9psreugv9.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>
Rodolfo wrote:
> If I put in my ~/.gnus.el the following:
>
> (setq gnus-select-method
> '(nnml ""
> (nnml-directory "/path/to/my/nnml/directory")))
>
> , everything seems to be all right: I get no error messages.
> Instead, if I first put the following line:
>
> (setq my-nnml-directory "/path/to/my/nnml/directory")
>
> and then:
>
> (setq gnus-select-method
> '(nnml ""
> (nnml-directory my-nnml-directory)))
>
> , when starting gnus I get the following error message:
>
> nnml () open error: ''. Continue? (y or n)
>
> . Why? Any idea?
David wrote:
> perhaps the most straightforward thing is
>
> (setq gnus-select-method
> `(nnml ""
> (nnml-directory ,my-nnml-directory)))
>
> (note the backquote and comma).
Reiner wrote:
> See (info "(elisp)Backquote") to learn more about "`" and ",".
Thanks indeed!
That worked fine.
Rodolfo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-17 7:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-11 16:12 romeomedina
2005-09-12 21:16 ` Reiner Steib
2005-09-17 7:34 ` romeomedina [this message]
2005-09-13 21:15 ` David Z Maze
2005-09-13 21:51 ` Feng Chen
2005-09-13 22:23 ` Adam Sjøgren
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