* Change location of .newsrc.eld file? @ 2014-10-24 5:44 Paul W. Rankin 2014-10-24 7:39 ` Alexander Baier 2014-10-24 13:49 ` Andy Moreton 0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Paul W. Rankin @ 2014-10-24 5:44 UTC (permalink / raw) To: info-gnus-english Can I customize the path of the .newsrc.eld file? I'd like to store it inside another folder that I can sync to Dropbox. Caveat: without altering the paths of the ~/News and ~/Mail directories, if possible? -- Paul W. Rankin http://www.paulwrankin.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Change location of .newsrc.eld file? 2014-10-24 5:44 Change location of .newsrc.eld file? Paul W. Rankin @ 2014-10-24 7:39 ` Alexander Baier 2014-10-24 13:49 ` Andy Moreton 1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Alexander Baier @ 2014-10-24 7:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Paul W. Rankin; +Cc: info-gnus-english On 2014-10-24 07:44 Paul W. Rankin wrote: > Can I customize the path of the .newsrc.eld file? I'd like to store it > inside another folder that I can sync to Dropbox. > > Caveat: without altering the paths of the ~/News and ~/Mail directories, > if possible? Not an answer to your question, but maybe a valid workaround: Did you try using a symlink? HTH, -- Alexander Baier ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Change location of .newsrc.eld file? 2014-10-24 5:44 Change location of .newsrc.eld file? Paul W. Rankin 2014-10-24 7:39 ` Alexander Baier @ 2014-10-24 13:49 ` Andy Moreton 2014-10-24 14:51 ` Paul W. Rankin 1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Andy Moreton @ 2014-10-24 13:49 UTC (permalink / raw) To: info-gnus-english On Fri 24 Oct 2014, Paul W. Rankin wrote: > Can I customize the path of the .newsrc.eld file? I'd like to store it > inside another folder that I can sync to Dropbox. > > Caveat: without altering the paths of the ~/News and ~/Mail directories, > if possible? Yes - do this from before starting gnus: (setq gnus-startup-file "/path/to/dir/.newsrc") This sets the path for ".newsrc" (if you use it) and ".newsrc.eld". HTH, AndyM ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: Change location of .newsrc.eld file? 2014-10-24 13:49 ` Andy Moreton @ 2014-10-24 14:51 ` Paul W. Rankin 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Paul W. Rankin @ 2014-10-24 14:51 UTC (permalink / raw) To: info-gnus-english Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> writes: > Yes - do this from before starting gnus: > > (setq gnus-startup-file "/path/to/dir/.newsrc") > > This sets the path for ".newsrc" (if you use it) and ".newsrc.eld". Thanks, this is what I was looking for. Didn't realise the var affects both files (in my defence, the doc only mentions the former). -- Paul W. Rankin http://www.paulwrankin.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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* Re: Change location of .newsrc.eld file? [not found] <mailman.11918.1414129521.1147.info-gnus-english@gnu.org> @ 2014-10-24 13:21 ` Ted Zlatanov 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Ted Zlatanov @ 2014-10-24 13:21 UTC (permalink / raw) To: info-gnus-english On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:44:57 +1000 "Paul W. Rankin" <hello@paulwrankin.com> wrote: PWR> Can I customize the path of the .newsrc.eld file? I'd like to store it PWR> inside another folder that I can sync to Dropbox. PWR> Caveat: without altering the paths of the ~/News and ~/Mail directories, PWR> if possible? I use: (let ((f "~/Dropbox/newsrc")) (if (file-exists-p (concat f ".eld")) (setq gnus-startup-file f) (message "Dropbox newsrc is not present") (sit-for 2))) Ted ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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