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From: Bill <wsharris13@gmail.com>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: IMAP problems
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:35:20 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cd82386d-7738-4c66-980a-3e4d9d8f5265@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16960e98-b1c8-4693-9bf9-fb22691b254c@s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com>

On Nov 29, 9:08 am, Bill <wsharri...@gmail.com> wrote:

>   If I can figure out how to point Gnus to my old mail structure, is
> it safe to subscribe to these cygwin structures (G d?) and then move
> or respool the files into my traditional structure?

A bit more reading (the *info* page called General Variables in 22.1
and 21.3.1) showed that Emacs changed the meaning of HOME between the
two versions.  In the older one, it seems to default to C:/; in 22.1,
it has a different default.  In the *info* page "G.4 HOME Directory on
MS-Windows," it seems to look for a HOME variable first, and that is
already set by cygwin. Since there's no .emacs there, it fails and
moves on without loading a .emacs, I presume (if it hadn't found HOME,
it would have done what I wanted and checked for .emacs in C:/).

Should I give up and move everything into HOME (aka c:/cygwin/home/my
name/ -- yes, it has a space :-(  ), or is there a way to tell Emacs
22.1 that it should look in C:/ even though HOME is defined by cygwin
as a different location?

Thanks,

Bill

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-29 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-28  5:37 Bill Harris
2007-11-28  6:43 ` Torsten Mueller
2007-11-28 18:54   ` Bill Harris
2007-11-28 21:08     ` Hasse Hagen Johansen
2007-11-28 22:31     ` Reiner Steib
2007-11-29  0:32       ` Bill Harris
2007-11-29 16:39         ` Bill
2007-11-29 17:08           ` Bill
2007-11-29 17:35             ` Bill [this message]
2007-11-29 22:45               ` Bill
2007-11-30 15:44                 ` Bill Harris
2007-11-30 16:02                 ` Bill Harris
2007-11-30 21:22           ` Reiner Steib
2007-12-02  3:26             ` Bill Harris
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-22 12:09 imap problems Kester Clegg
2002-11-22 15:03 ` Dan Smith

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