From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17120 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brady Trainor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Move Mail/ and News/ from ~/ ? Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 21:48:57 -0700 Message-ID: <87y4tbaqme.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 1411447783 29445 80.91.229.3 (23 Sep 2014 04:49:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 04:49:43 +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 06:49:38 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 1XWI2j-0002nJ-B4 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 06:49:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50633 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWI2i-00055Q-RY for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:49:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32827) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWI2Z-0004xb-Ln for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:49:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWI2S-00054n-6h for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:49:27 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60438) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWI2R-00053Y-W0 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 00:49:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XWI2L-0002S5-30 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 06:49:13 +0200 Original-Received: from 71-35-180-234.tukw.qwest.net ([71.35.180.234]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 06:49:13 +0200 Original-Received: from algebrat by 71-35-180-234.tukw.qwest.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 06:49:13 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 71-35-180-234.tukw.qwest.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ob0KqyNlD2j5Ppky5yPaNmSXkoU= 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:17120 Archived-At: I am considering moving my Gnus setup to a partition I share between OSes. In this way, tick marks, subscribed folders etc will be easier to keep in sync. So for instance, I hope the following will have the desired effect. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (setq gnus-init-file "/e/.gnus") (setq gnus-startup-file "/e/.newsrc") (setq gnus-dribble-directory "/e/") --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- In fact, it seems this can all be done at once with --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (setq gnus-home-directory "/e/") --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- But to deal with `~/Mail/` and `~/News/`, I'm not sure the most convenient way. It appears that so many variables may point to it, that it may be easier to simply symlink these two. I have considered these other variables (I got most of this from word search in Gnus help node), but I'm unsure that they would have the desired and complete effect. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- nnml-directory mail-source-directory gnus-article-save-directory gnus-kill-files-directory gnus-directory --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Thank you, Brady