From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: message auto-saving?
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 19:39:32 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k2ksrtor.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m27fgs6uxm.fsf@charm-ecran.irisa.fr>
Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:
> On 2016-03-24 10:51, Peter Münster <pmlists@free.fr> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 24 2016, Alan Schmitt wrote:
>>
>>> I just had emacs crash, and I could recover almost all my files using
>>> their last autosave, with one exception: the email I was writing.
>>
>> It was not in ~/News/drafts/drafts ?
>
> No, there was nothing there. I just waited until I save the "autosave"
> message for this current message, and I cannot find where this has been
> saved … I also looked into ~/Mail/drafts, which is where
> `message-auto-save-directory' points to, but it is not there. (The
> docstring for that variable says that this is the buffer where messages
> are saved if Gnus is not running, but I don't know where to look if Gnus
> is running.)
>
> Is there an equivalent of `message-auto-save-directory' for gnus?
Take a look at the `gnus-home-directory' and `gnus-directory' variables.
I don't know why there are two of those. In my case, I've got this set:
(setq gnus-home-directory "~/.emacs.d")
And my drafts are therefore found under
"~/.emacs.d/News/drafts/drafts/".
Hope that's helpful.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-24 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-24 8:21 Alan Schmitt
2016-03-24 9:51 ` Peter Münster
2016-03-24 10:18 ` Alan Schmitt
2016-03-24 11:39 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2016-03-24 13:38 ` Alan Schmitt
2016-03-24 14:01 ` Eric S Fraga
2016-03-24 14:46 ` Alan Schmitt
2016-03-24 15:04 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-03-24 16:14 ` Eric S Fraga
2016-03-24 18:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-03-25 7:56 ` Alan Schmitt
2016-03-24 18:52 ` Emanuel Berg
2016-03-25 8:01 ` Alan Schmitt
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