From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17425 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: eminmn@sysmatrix.net (Ed C.) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Location of .gnus init file Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2015 21:53:06 -0600 Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95 Message-ID: References: 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 1423454109 22378 80.91.229.3 (9 Feb 2015 03:55:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 03:55:09 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 09 04:55:08 2015 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 1YKfRD-0007hp-Kg for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2015 04:55:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58716 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YKfRC-0001nh-St for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Feb 2015 22:55:06 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news7 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 40 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pbbd9bd342c42a2dea6144930626009b6a8abbd0dab274046.newsdawg.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:S3bcEqNIUhJYRUoNRR55LVNaOFY= X-Received-Bytes: 2071 X-Received-Body-CRC: 736958330 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:88554 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:17425 Archived-At: Rainer Thiel writes: > I am keeping my home directory ~/ synchronized through several machines > and am trying to place the .gnus init file elsewhere than in ~/. This > works fine when I put > > > (setq gnus-init-file "C:/Emacs-local/.gnus.d/.gnus.el") > > (setq gnus-directory "C:/Emacs-local/.gnus.d/") > > (setq gnus-home-directory "C:/Emacs-local/.gnus.d/") > > (setq gnus-startup-file (concat gnus-home-directory ".newsrc")) > > in my .emacs init file. In this case, emacs/gnus reads .gnus.el from > C:/Emacs-local/.gnus.d/ and writes/reads .newsrc and .newsrc.eld to/from > this very directory, as expected. > > So far, so good. As I'd prefer to configure gnus on a machine-dependent > basis, I tried to put the code cited above in my site-start.el. This > does not have the desired effect, though. > > Can someone please tell me why, and what I could do? > > Many thanks in advance > > Rainer According to this: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eintr/Site_002dwide-Init.html maybe you should put it in default.el, which .emacs won't overwrite. Worth a try. Question: Why does sort not work on articles when thread view is toggled off? Also is there a variable that assures that the most recently posted article will always be at top of summary buffer? I would like this behavior for all groups. Ed