From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17196 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Moreton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Change location of .newsrc.eld file? Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:49:05 +0100 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 1414158585 15594 80.91.229.3 (24 Oct 2014 13:49:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:49:45 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 24 15:49:40 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 1XhfFK-0005nh-PB for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:49:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48765 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XhfFK-0008Kj-G1 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:49:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58623) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XhfFB-0008JD-5S for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:49:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XhfF3-0003JX-KD for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:49:29 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60472) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XhfF3-0003JR-DI for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 09:49:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XhfF0-0005dc-4z for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:49:18 +0200 Original-Received: from uk.solarflare.com ([193.34.186.16]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:49:18 +0200 Original-Received: from andrewjmoreton by uk.solarflare.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 2014 15:49:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: uk.solarflare.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.51 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BycEOv65PiAAtsANLpKd5m8mk28= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:17196 Archived-At: 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