From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/14270 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rafael Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Solution for gnus wide sync Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:09:08 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87wrr3y9gb.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87lj7jzt3n.fsf@notengoamigos.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291957250 14118 80.91.229.12 (10 Dec 2010 05:00:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:00:50 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 10 06:00:45 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQv65-0008Aw-5R for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 06:00:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35918 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQv64-0005J3-Kp for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Dec 2010 00:00:44 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-2.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 32 Injection-Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 00:09:11 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx03.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8U9N05xp1lHwE1uTRRMuuQ"; logging-data="25893"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+DH/dwLOGdtvGiH7dXevdB" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6Wbp563KLeDS37xC8PRYu1YS4XY= sha1:sxyucAdP58N/ryl/6wlALmH6dEY= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:84705 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:28:11 -0500 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:14270 Archived-At: Jason Earl writes: > On Thu, Sep 02 2010, Paulo J. Matos Paulo J. Matos wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am currently using GNUS widely at home, on the laptop and at >> work. However, annoyingly I don't have any sync setup between gnus >> besides the config file through git and dropbox. >> >> What I would like is to sync >> - the topic setup >> - subscribed newsgroups >> - newsgroup message status (read, expired, etc) >> >> Any tips on how to do this or workarounds to this? >> >> Cheers, > > Dropbox would probably be far easier (and mostly automatic). My > experience that if you keep the files in these directories in sync > then things simply work as you would expect. Since Monday I have been using the following (in .emacs). (setq gnus-home-directory "~/Dropbox/gnus") (setq gnus-directory "~/Dropbox/gnus/News") (setq message-directory "~/Dropbox/gnus/Mail") and so far everything seems to work. According to the documentation, only the first should suffice, but not for me.