From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17121 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rainer M Krug Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Move Mail/ and News/ from ~/ ? Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 08:48:59 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87y4tbaqme.fsf@uw.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0696538657762296300==" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411454984 13131 80.91.229.3 (23 Sep 2014 06:49:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 06:49:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org To: Brady Trainor Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 23 08:49:36 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 1XWJuk-0000AL-Cd for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 08:49:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51064 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWJug-0007Hw-0R for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 02:49:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53749) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWJuY-0007Bd-Lg for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 02:49:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWJuS-0001aX-J7 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 02:49:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-f179.google.com ([209.85.212.179]:47424) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWJuS-0001aJ-Cu for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 02:49:12 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-wi0-f179.google.com with SMTP id d1so4365535wiv.6 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 23:49:06 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=fvxRjoUoLXaddihHejw7pmXLDZ3LBnzijqhYfoLFH5A=; b=e1Epyxdls6fjOPc9+Ql/V7b76eCIjWI0mGdUsapwnU4D57YG6qcBTOaXeNISnVaE+d Yq6axe66qRdypY13MCKKLbWAJZPt0tCmFRYLvoFKLMBytScnT+jxlnY+HFdgBvMYyIUF 1wVXswOR48cX7QU2jS2BVMrP0uc2M2if3K5wax/cj2bgMvbQCHYEdnmQp1q8Nm6KoenB NR5tNCcyREj0d8fBzSMrp4YerHj6VJnYptFTK31zs2rIAblWdSOsaTjJYihSzilOCnKe BNcMi3/E0JzG9SqTxQhRIyCvr70sAKw2jdCFuewrF29Dk/w4q34wirkJpdDnL5a6zQhh EA4w== X-Received: by 10.180.99.195 with SMTP id es3mr814519wib.67.1411454946404; Mon, 22 Sep 2014 23:49:06 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from Rainers-MacBook-Pro-3.local (arn78-1-88-186-171-7.fbx.proxad.net. [88.186.171.7]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id xm4sm1125879wib.9.2014.09.22.23.49.04 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 22 Sep 2014 23:49:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87y4tbaqme.fsf@uw.edu> (Brady Trainor's message of "Mon, 22 Sep 2014 21:48:57 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (darwin) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.212.179 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:17121 Archived-At: --===============0696538657762296300== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Brady Trainor writes: > 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.=20 > > (setq gnus-init-file "/e/.gnus") > (setq gnus-startup-file "/e/.newsrc") > (setq gnus-dribble-directory "/e/") > > In fact, it seems this can all be done at once with > > (setq gnus-home-directory "/e/") > > 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.=20 I have =2D-8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (setq gnus-home-directory "~/.gnus.d/" gnus-init-file "~/.gnus.d/gnus.el" message-directory (expand-file-name "Mail/" gnus-home-directory)) =2D-8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- in my emacs.el file and all gnus related files are in this directory. Cheers, Rainer > > 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.=20 > > nnml-directory > mail-source-directory > > gnus-article-save-directory > gnus-kill-files-directory > gnus-directory > > > Thank you,=20 > Brady > > =2D-=20 Rainer M. 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