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Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com> writes:

> Norbert Koch <nk+news@viteno.net> writes:
>
>> You need to set the variable 'gnus-article-save-directory'.
>
> That worked very well, thank you.
>
> What is the best way to find the names of variables such as this?

Reading the manual...  However, apropos is your friend.

> I need to find the comparable variables for save-as under rmail
> (rmail-article-save-directory is not it) and for emacs in general
> (setting the default save-as directory in text mode to be other than
> ~/)?

I'd read the manual, or use M-x apropos-variable RET rmail.*directory RET.

(M-x apropos RET is also useful.  It's not the same as C-h a, at
least not in Emacs.)
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