Re: Move Mail/ and News/ from ~/ ?

[Rainer M Krug]

Brady Trainor <algebrat@uw.edu> writes:

> I am considering moving my Gnus setup to a partition I share between
> OSes. In this way, tick marks, subscribed folders etc will be easier to
> keep in sync.
>
> So for instance, I hope the following will have the desired effect. 
>
> (setq gnus-init-file "/e/.gnus")
> (setq gnus-startup-file "/e/.newsrc")
> (setq gnus-dribble-directory "/e/")
>
> In fact, it seems this can all be done at once with
>
> (setq gnus-home-directory "/e/")
>
> But to deal with `~/Mail/` and `~/News/`, I'm not sure the most
> convenient way. It appears that so many variables may point to it, that
> it may be easier to simply symlink these two. 

I have

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq gnus-home-directory    "~/.gnus.d/"
      gnus-init-file         "~/.gnus.d/gnus.el"
      message-directory      (expand-file-name "Mail/" gnus-home-directory))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

in my emacs.el file and all gnus related files are in this directory.

Cheers,

Rainer

>
> I have considered these other variables (I got most of this from word
> search in Gnus help node), but I'm unsure that they would have the
> desired and complete effect. 
>
> nnml-directory
> mail-source-directory
>
> gnus-article-save-directory
> gnus-kill-files-directory
> gnus-directory
>
>
> Thank you, 
> Brady
>
>

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