Re: Little help sorting please...

[Mike Dixon <in_my.t@gline.org>]

> Mike Dixon <in_my.t@gline.org> writes:
> 
> > Thanks Kai.  Got a different error:
> 
> Gah :-(
> 
> > Wrong number of arguments: (lambda (group) (if group (format "nnfolder:%s.archive" group) "nnfolder:other.archive")), 0
> >
> > I'll play around with it some and see if I can determine what's causing
> > the error...
> 
> I've peeked at the source, and maybe
> 
> (setq gnus-message-archive-group 'mike-gnus-message-archive-group)
> 
> is the simplest value that will do.  But the one with the double pair
> of parens should also work, if...
> 
> (defun mike-gnus-message-archive-group (group)
> 
> you write (&optional group) instead of (group) in the defun line.
> 
>   (if group
>       (format "nnfolder:%s.archive" group)
>     "nnfolder:other.archive"))
> 
> Tell about your findings...
> 
> But maybe the group name isn't passed as often as it should be.  Hm.
> Well, we will see.
> -- 

Hi Kai - 

:-> The archive file my post is saved to using the above is at the end of
a nested set of dirs.  For instance, if the group name is gnu.emacs.gnus
and I post to that group, and my archive file is therefore named
gnu.emacs.gnus.archive, using the code above I end up with
~/*/gnu/emacs/gnus/archive which is where the copy of my post is stored.  I 
was hoping for a filename such as ~/*/gnu.emacs.gnus.archive (which it
looked like I was going to get with "nnfolder:%s.archive"). 

I found "format" in my LISP Info file but the specifiers didn't indicate
behavior like that for %s.  I located nnfolder.el and there's a
function/dir "file-name-as-directory" that I wonder if that's the root
cause of this (converted what I wanted as a filename into a dir path)?  Is
this the default behavior of nnfolder used as it is here to convert "."
into directories?  Do you know if there's some way I can use
"file-name-as-directory" in nnfolder.el such that my posts are stored in
filenames where it doesn't convert the "." in the group name into
directories (or is there a better way to accomplish this)?  Incidentally,
when I save a thread (T #, O-f <name>) it creates one directory such as
"comp.protocols.tcp-ip" and saves the thread in there but does not convert
the "." in comp.protocols.tcp-ip into a nested series of directories
(i.e., comp/protocols/tcp-ip/).

I looked at "nnfolder" from the index of Info:gnus but unless I missed
something it doesn't seem to mention this dir-creating behavior.  I hope
my question isn't too convoluted so to restate, what I'm after is an
archive file where the "." of the Usenet group name isn't converted to
directories - a filename like gnu.emacs.gnus.archive.

Mike