Eric Abrahamsen <e...@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. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english