From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/10344 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pablo Sanchez Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: re-specifying ~/News and ~/Mail Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:33:57 -0500 Organization: Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc 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 1202796025 10406 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2008 06:00:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:00:25 +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 07:00:48 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 1JOoCG-00062S-42 for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:00:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOoBm-0001hW-DZ for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:00:18 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!out01b.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in02.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in03.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc02.usenetserver.com!TEKSAVVY.COM-a2kHrUvQQWlmc!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus - see www.gnus.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:NMoW23ooUsc4iW2FeZAwPlKdSL8= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Trace: 6ccad47b06ae56b5d0eb111422 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:80555 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:54:26 -0500 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:10344 Archived-At: Martin Geisler writes: > Pablo Sanchez writes: > > Hi Pablo Hi Martin, > I think you want to change either this variable: 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")) By doing the above, all the gnus files and directories are placed in ~/gnus.d: ~/gnus.d/ .newsrc Mail/ +--- drafts/ News/ +--- agent/ +--- drafts/ Now my top-level directory remains tidy. I suppose I should get to work now. :p Cheers, -- pablo