Re: re-specifying ~/News and ~/Mail

[Martin Geisler <mg@daimi.au.dk>]

Pablo Sanchez <dev.null@blueoakdb.com> writes:

Hi,

> Once again, thank you for the information.  It got me going in the
> right direction.  In order to affect this change, I had to make the
> following changes:
>
>    (setq gnus-home-directory         "~/.gnus.d")
>    (setq gnus-startup-file           (concat gnus-home-directory ".newsrc"))
>    (setq gnus-cache-directory        (concat gnus-home-directory "/cache"))
>    (setq message-directory           (concat gnus-home-directory "/Mail"))
>    (setq gnus-directory              (concat gnus-home-directory "/News"))
>    (setq gnus-agent-directory        (concat gnus-directory      "/agent"))
>    (setq message-auto-save-directory (concat message-directory   "/drafts"))

I have not tried setting gnus-home-directory myself, but the manual
promises that the other variables will be affected by its setting.

So only the first and forth of your settings ought to be necessary if
you set them in your ~/.emacs file. But as I said, I have not tried
this out, I have only read the fine manual :-)

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