From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/10346 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Geisler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: re-specifying ~/News and ~/Mail Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:20:20 +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 1202801124 22469 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2008 07:25:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:25:24 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 12 08:25:47 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 1JOpWS-0006qd-ML for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:25:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOpVz-00087s-8p for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:25:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOpVx-00087c-Ou for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:25:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOpVw-00084m-0e for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:25:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOpVv-00084e-RI for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:25:11 -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 1JOpVv-0002Rw-BR for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:25:11 -0500 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JOpVm-0001Uj-RI for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:25:02 +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 ; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:25:02 +0000 Original-Received: from mg by thyra03.daimi.au.dk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:25:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 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:WBtBmH8ulnvjbdqBhPA5r5WvFfo= 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:10346 Archived-At: Pablo Sanchez 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 :-) -- Martin Geisler VIFF (Virtual Ideal Functionality Framework) brings easy and efficient SMPC (Secure Multi-Party Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.