Benjamin Slade <sl...@jnanam.net> writes: > 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.
Especially if you're not changing things all the time. Hopefully we'll have a better solution before too long! _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
