From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17126 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brady Trainor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Move Mail/ and News/ from ~/ ? Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 09:58:42 -0700 Message-ID: <87r3z2i88t.fsf@uw.edu> References: <87y4tbaqme.fsf@uw.edu> <878ulan6kd.fsf@uw.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411491570 18845 80.91.229.3 (23 Sep 2014 16:59:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 16:59:30 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 23 18:59:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XWTQs-0002N9-VF for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:59:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54593 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWTQs-0001JD-NC for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:59:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53128) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWTQl-0001J2-Qp for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:59:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWTQg-0004Ie-Ct for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:59:11 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34623) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWTQg-0004IS-78 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:59:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XWTQZ-00020l-Cj for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:58:59 +0200 Original-Received: from 75-165-50-85.tukw.qwest.net ([75.165.50.85]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:58:59 +0200 Original-Received: from algebrat by 75-165-50-85.tukw.qwest.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 18:58:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-165-50-85.tukw.qwest.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XfgRdMtrymo0zsgV7Xd0nxhzrNI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:17126 Archived-At: Rainer M Krug writes: > Brady Trainor writes: > >> Rainer M Krug writes: >> >>> Brady Trainor writes: >>> >>>> But to deal with `~/Mail/` and `~/News/`,... >>> >>> I have >>> >>> (setq gnus-home-directory "~/.gnus.d/" >>> gnus-init-file "~/.gnus.d/gnus.el" >>> message-directory (expand-file-name "Mail/" gnus-home-directory)) >>> >>> in my emacs.el file and all gnus related files are in this directory. >> >> Ah, this looks like the right thing to do. But so do you not have an >> nntp setup? There is no `News` directory for you, in `~` or `Mail`? > > > I have the following in my ~/.gnus.d directory: > > | drwxrwxr-x 7 rainerkrug staff 238B Jul 22 11:28 Mail > | drwxr-xr-x 5 rainerkrug staff 170B Apr 11 15:47 News Perfect! Thank you for the settings! (I think gnus-home-directory sets everything I was asking about /except/ for Mail/, that is, it will also set News/. Perhaps the documentation on gnus-home-directory is a little ambiguous, but then, better to leave it up in the air a little, than to be wrong if some change is made in the future of the-one-true-email-client.) Brady