Changing ~/Mail and ~/News

Changing ~/Mail and ~/News

[Paulo Matos]

Hello all,

Reading from the manual this doesnt seem a trivial task because there
seems to be many variables that set subdirectories of ~/Mail and ~/
News so you just have to reset them all.

Has anyone done this? If yes, can you please post all the variables
you need to set to change them to ~/Common/Mail and ~/Common/News?

Cheers,

Paulo Matos

Re: Changing ~/Mail and ~/News

[Michal Nazarewicz]

Paulo Matos <pocmatos@gmail.com> writes:
> Reading from the manual this doesnt seem a trivial task because there
> seems to be many variables that set subdirectories of ~/Mail and ~/
> News so you just have to reset them all.
>
> Has anyone done this? If yes, can you please post all the variables
> you need to set to change them to ~/Common/Mail and ~/Common/News?

#v+
(setq
 gnus-home-directory        (expand-file-name "~/.gnus")
 message-directory          (concat gnus-home-directory "/Mail")
 message-directory          (concat gnus-home-directory "/Mail")
 nndraft-directory          (concat gnus-home-directory "/drafts")
 gnus-startup-file          (concat gnus-home-directory "/newsrc"))
#v-

Works for me.

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Re: Changing ~/Mail and ~/News

[Paulo Jorge de O. C. de Matos]

Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@tlen.pl> writes:

> Paulo Matos <pocmatos@gmail.com> writes:
>> Reading from the manual this doesnt seem a trivial task because there
>> seems to be many variables that set subdirectories of ~/Mail and ~/
>> News so you just have to reset them all.
>>
>> Has anyone done this? If yes, can you please post all the variables
>> you need to set to change them to ~/Common/Mail and ~/Common/News?
>
> #v+
> (setq
>  gnus-home-directory        (expand-file-name "~/.gnus")
>  message-directory          (concat gnus-home-directory "/Mail")
>  message-directory          (concat gnus-home-directory "/Mail")
>  nndraft-directory          (concat gnus-home-directory "/drafts")
>  gnus-startup-file          (concat gnus-home-directory "/newsrc"))
> #v-
>

Great! :) Thanks a lot for the code. I thought it was a bit more
complicated.

Cheers,

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University of Southampton, UK