From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/10354 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Geisler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: re-specifying ~/News and ~/Mail Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:30:08 +0100 Organization: http://mgeisler.net/ Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202891455 20510 80.91.229.12 (13 Feb 2008 08:30:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:30:55 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 13 09:31:19 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JPD1R-0008EX-Ir for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 09:31:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JPD0y-0004iH-0J for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:30:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JPD0Y-0004Tv-Po for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:30:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JPD0T-0004R2-B4 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:30:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JPD0T-0004Qe-3U for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:30:17 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JPD0T-0002Jf-Cs for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:30:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JPD0Q-000672-BH for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:30:14 +0000 Original-Received: from thyra03.daimi.au.dk ([130.225.16.64]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:30:14 +0000 Original-Received: from mg by thyra03.daimi.au.dk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:30:14 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: thyra03.daimi.au.dk User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:byR1b1OLy3m7WUsvF7KE0jHOR+M= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: , 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:10354 Archived-At: Pablo Sanchez writes: >>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Geisler writes: > > Martin> I have not tried setting gnus-home-directory myself, but > Martin> the manual promises that the other variables will be > Martin> affected by its setting. > > Martin> So only the first and forth of your settings ought to be > Martin> necessary if you set them in your ~/.emacs file. But as I > Martin> said, I have not tried this out, I have only read the fine > Martin> manual :-) > > I actually tried with just the first variable but it didn't work. I > added the next two and tested again. It still didn't fully work. Not > until I made the other changes did it all `take.' Okay, that is good to know if I ever want to do something similar myself -- I also like my home directory to be tidy :-) -- Martin Geisler VIFF (Virtual Ideal Functionality Framework) brings easy and efficient SMPC (Secure Multi-Party Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.