Reiner Steib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ,----[ (info "(gnus)Various Various") ] > | `gnus-home-directory' > | All Gnus file and directory variables will be initialized from this > | variable, which defaults to `~/'. > `---- > > ,----[ (info "(message)Various Message Variables") ] > | `message-directory' > | Directory used by many mailey things. The default is `~/Mail/'. > | All other mail file variables are derived from `message-directory'. > `----
> > | but I guess it does no harm to set them all explicitly. > > It's confusing and error-prone, IMHO. I remember I was confused that there exists 'gnus-home-directory' as well as 'gnus-directory' where both doc strings more or less say that everything will be derived from them. I see now that in gnus.el gnus-directory is set to gnus-home-directory (except when the SAVEDIR environment variable is set...). In gnus-registry.el, 'gnus-dribble-directory' (which, granted, is usually nil) has precedence over 'gnus-home-directory' for setting 'gnus-registry-cache-file'. OK, I suppose I'm nitpicking here... > | rsync -e "ssh -l name" -auvzp workcomputer:./Gnus ~/. > > Only ancient versions of rsync don't use ssh by default. OK. > I'd suggest to get rid of the shell script and do it in elisp[1]. Yes. This setup 'evolved' before I became more familiar with elisp... > Within Emacs, the values of `gnus-directory', `message-directory', > `gnus-startup-file', ... are available, you can use them in the sync > function. I'd guess that you don't even need to bother about frobbing > `gnus-home-directory' and `message-directory'. Just rsync ~/.newsrc*, > ~/Mail and ~/News. Or am I missing something? Since I guess I am only using ~10% of Gnus' functionality I wouldn't know for sure. I guess syncing the registry file isn't really necessary? > Nice idea. Maybe adding a prompt "Do you want to sync from ... to > ...?" would make sense. Yes. I'll revise that page as soon as I have time. Thanks for your comments. -David _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english