Re: syncing groups/topics arrangement between machines?

[Benjamin Slade]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> B. Slade wrote:
>> So in the *Group* buffer, which looks like:
>>
>> [ Gnus -- 9198 ]
>>   [ Emacs ]
>>        0:imap+mymail:emacs
>>        7:imap+mymail:sexy_emacs
>>   [ Work ]
>>     9000:imap+gmail:urgent_work
>>   [ misc ]
>>        89:imap+mymail:origami
>>      ...
>> etc., etc.
>>
>> I have setup certain topics and arranged groups within them. Is there a
>> way to sync this between machines? Or is it something which needs to be
>> recreated by hand on each separate machine?
>>
>> It doesn't look like Gnus is saving these settings in .emacs or anything.
>
> It's kept in the variable `gnus-topic-alist', which is saved to the file
> pointed to by `gnus-startup-file', which on this machine points to
> ~/.emacs.d/.newsrc. That's where gnus stores most of its state,
> including subscribed groups and message marks.
>
> I wouldn't recommend copying this file between machines -- I tried that
> before, and it didn't work out well. There is a possibility that in the
> future, Gnus' various state objects will be separated out a little more
> cleanly. It would be nice to at least have a separation between
> "settings than can be synced or kept in version control" (which would
> include group subscriptions and topic arrangements), and "settings that
> only Gnus should mess with", which I guess would mostly be marks.
>
> For the time being, though, at least you can manually copy the setq
> statement out of newsrc.eld...
>

Ah, thanks. I see it now.  Yes, I already tried just copying .newsrc and
.newsrc.eld and that didn't seem to work well. But manually copying the
setq out of .newsrc.eld seems like a reasonable stopgap solution.