From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/10345 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 08:17:17 +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 1202800667 21372 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2008 07:17:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:17:47 +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 08:18:10 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 1JOpP6-000514-2b for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:18:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOpOc-0003x1-I3 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:17:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOpOa-0003uD-PQ for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:17:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOpOZ-0003sa-Pc for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:17:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOpOZ-0003s9-H0 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:17:35 -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 1JOpOZ-00017D-75 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:17:35 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JOpOT-0001Ab-FU for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:17:29 +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 07:17:29 +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 07:17:29 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 49 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: sha1:0fsYWNz8ta+5s3M/3Zq54ioqelo= 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:10345 Archived-At: Pablo Sanchez writes: > Martin Geisler writes: > >> I think you want to change either this variable: >> >> `gnus-home-directory' >> `gnus-directory' >> `message-directory' >> >> [ snipped ] > > Thank you. > >> When searching for a variable controlling something, then it is >> often useful to search with M-x apropos-value for the value in >> question. > > Thank you for the hint as I rather learn to `fish than to be fed a > fish.' :) Yeah, me too :-) That apropos command is really powerful! I found the gnus-home-directory and gnus-directory variables in the Gnus Info manual, but I had to search with apropos-value for the message-directory variable (although I ought to have guessed the name since it is so similar to the other names). > I thought I'd try it out. After entering 'M-x apropos-value' I > entered 'gnus.*directory' At this point I received a `stack overflow > in regexp matcher' > > Am I doing sometihng incredibly lame? I get the same error. I guess it is understandable since your regexp is matched against all variable *values*, and some of these values are apparently too big to be searched with that a regexp. If you search with a regexp that does not require as much backtracking, then it works fine: M-x apropos-value RET gnus.\{1,10\}directory returns matches in my Emacs. -- Martin Geisler VIFF (Virtual Ideal Functionality Framework) brings easy and efficient SMPC (Secure Multi-Party Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.