From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastian Rose Subject: Re: changing Gnus paths: 'News' and 'Mail' Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:57:05 +0200 Message-ID: <876339aq7i.fsf@gmx.de> References: <87k4rpb62y.fsf@eraldo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-=-=" Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O7saa-0003nu-IC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:57:16 -0400 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=48702 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O7saZ-0003mw-Dz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:57:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O7saX-0001U4-RA for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:57:15 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:60238) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O7saX-0001Tl-Es for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:57:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87k4rpb62y.fsf@eraldo.org> (Eraldo Helal's message of "Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:14:13 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Eraldo Helal Cc: Org-Mode --=-=-= Hi Eraldo, Eraldo Helal writes: > Greetings Orgmoders > > Problem description: > ============================================ > I want to get rid of the 'News' and 'Mail' directories in my home and > put them somewhere else instead: > '~/News' => '~/mypath/News' > '~/Mail' => '~/mypath/Mail' > > Question: Which variables do I have to change so that gnus won't have > troubles with moving those directories? I have this in my .emacs: --=-=-= Content-Type: application/emacs-lisp Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ;; Makes gnus find ~/emacs/gnus/.gnus.el: (setq gnus-home-directory "~/emacs/gnus/") (if (boundp 'mail-user-agent) (setq mail-user-agent 'gnus-user-agent)) --=-=-= And I have this in ~/emacs/gnus/.gnus.el: --=-=-= Content-Type: application/emacs-lisp Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (setq gnus-home-directory "~/emacs/gnus/") ;; FIXME: Redundant - why? (setq gnus-startup-file (concat gnus-home-directory ".newsrc") gnus-cache-directory (concat gnus-home-directory "cache") message-directory (concat gnus-home-directory "Mail") gnus-directory (concat gnus-home-directory "News") gnus-article-save-directory (concat gnus-home-directory "News") gnus-kill-files-directory (concat gnus-home-directory "killfiles") gnus-dribble-directory gnus-home-directory) --=-=-= I guess the `gnus-home-directory' is OK in .gnus.el > E.g.: If I change 'gnus-home-directory' from '~/' to '~/mypath/', will > gnus-directory change to '~/mypath/News' or will it still be '~/News'? > Making it necessary for me to change it as well. (and maybe others too?) I'm not sure if it is easy to move those directories. I recall having problems to do so. But that's quite a while ago. Sebastian --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode --=-=-=--