From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7376 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: move ~/News ~/Mail dir? Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 12:51:31 +0200 Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm Message-ID: References: <877j4c6lbf.fsf@rpi.edu> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1148470851 13726 80.91.229.2 (24 May 2006 11:40:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 11:40:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 24 13:40:46 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Firj8-0006VO-6j for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 May 2006 13:40:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Firj7-0006kR-NP for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 May 2006 07:40:33 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-Face: P05mdcZT&lL[-s2=mw~RsllZ0zZAb?vdE}.s List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:7376 Archived-At: On Wed, May 24 2006, Leon wrote: > Leon writes: >> Bill Atkins writes: >>> (setq gnus-directory "~/srcf/gnus") >>> (setq message-directory "~/srcf/gnus/Mail") Yes, this settings should be sufficient. All Gnus & Message variables should be derived from this variables. If not, it's a bug. >> But with these settings, gnus still will create ~/Mail and ~/News and >> use score file in ~/News stead of ~/srcf/News. > > Customize gnus-kill-files-directory will sort out the score file > problem. `gnus-kill-files-directory' _is_ derived from `gnus-directory': (defcustom gnus-kill-files-directory gnus-directory ...) Maybe you are (implicitly) loading parts of Gnus before evaluating (setq gnus-directory "~/srcf/gnus") in your ~/.emacs file? > Any idea why ~/Mail/archive is created? This probably is `nnfolder-directory' which should be derived from `message-directory': (defvoo nnfolder-directory (expand-file-name message-directory) "The name of the nnfolder directory.") Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/