Re: Default article save in Gnus (solved)

[Neil Woods]

Neil Woods <cnw+usenet@pobox.com> writes:

> I've been using the default save ('o') from the summary buffer which
> creates RMAIL files in the ~/News directory.
>
> Now my ~/News directory is filled with many files with names mirroring
> the newsgroup name. Some also have names such as nnml:mail.misc, etc.
>
> How can I specify the default directory to save these files, say
> ~/News/saved-articles?

;; set the save-dir
(setq gnus-article-save-directory (concat gnus-directory "saved/"))

> Also, is it possible to read a directory of these files in one
> operation, creating a kind of virtual server?
>
> Up till now I've been reading each one using the nndoc backend (with
> names like nndoc+/home/neil/News/gnu.emacs.gnus:gnu.emacs.gnus).
>
> Is there a better way of doing this?

,----[ (info "(gnus)Saving Articles") ]
|    If you'd like to save articles in a hierarchy that looks something
| like a spool, you could
| 
|      (setq gnus-use-long-file-name '(not-save)) ; to get a hierarchy
|      (setq gnus-default-article-saver
|            'gnus-summary-save-in-file)          ; no encoding
| 
|    Then just save with `o'.  You'd then read this hierarchy with
| ephemeral `nneething' groups--`G D' in the group buffer, and the top
| level directory as the argument (`~/News/').  Then just walk around to
| the groups/directories with `nneething'. 
`----


-- 
Neil