Re: Synchronizing multiple computers

2008-02-10 Thread David
Gour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I also put mairix database and newsticker's cache file under ~/Gnus and > added them to 'my-gnussync-extra-files' list, but it looks they are > 'synced' in my ~/ and not in ~/Gnus. Yes, you're right. I've updated the code to work correctly with subdirectories (ho

Re: Synchronizing multiple computers

2008-02-10 Thread Gour
> "David" == David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi! David> I've revised the wiki page and posted new code which works David> without a shell script: David> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GnusSync David> Comments/Corrections are appreciated (or simply edit the page - David> it's a wik

Re: Synchronizing multiple computers

2008-02-05 Thread Gour
> "David" == David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi David! Thank a lot for your 'sync' code. I use it with pleasure to sync between laptop & desktop machines. David> I've revised the wiki page and posted new code which works David> without a shell script: Iirc, I had some problem when tried

Re: Synchronizing multiple computers

2008-02-04 Thread David
Reiner Steib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd suggest to get rid of the shell script and do it in elisp[1]. > 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

Re: Synchronizing multiple computers

2008-02-01 Thread Gour
> "Martin" == Martin Geisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> Yeah, using those functions sounds promissing! I'll see if I can Martin> get something going. Thanks for the input. I did setup according to: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GnusSync and ot works great syncing news-part be

Re: Synchronizing multiple computers

2008-01-31 Thread Martin Geisler
Reiner Steib <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Jan 30 2008, Martin Geisler wrote: > >> Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I normally keep my Gnus running at all times on my work computer. Is it safe to copy files back and forth in that case? >>> >>> No. >> >> Right, it wou

Re: Synchronizing multiple computers

2008-01-31 Thread Martin Geisler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johan Bockgård) writes: > Martin Geisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I've just looked (briefly) at the .newsrc-dribble file, and it >> looks like it is full of what one could hope is idempotent >> commands. >> >> If that is the case, would it then be possible for me to tran

Re: Synchronizing multiple computers

2008-01-31 Thread Reiner Steib
On Wed, Jan 30 2008, Martin Geisler wrote: > Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> I normally keep my Gnus running at all times on my work computer. Is it >>> safe to copy files back and forth in that case? >> >> No. > > Right, it would also have been quite impressive if it was possible

Re: Synchronizing multiple computers

2008-01-31 Thread Johan Bockgård
Martin Geisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've just looked (briefly) at the .newsrc-dribble file, and it looks > like it is full of what one could hope is idempotent commands. > > If that is the case, would it then be possible for me to transfer my > activity at home to Gnus at work by appendin

Re: Synchronizing multiple computers

2008-01-30 Thread Martin Geisler
Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I normally keep my Gnus running at all times on my work computer. Is it >> safe to copy files back and forth in that case? > > No. Right, it would also have been quite impressive if it was possible :-) I've just looked (briefly) at the .newsrc-dribbl

Re: Synchronizing multiple computers

2008-01-30 Thread Martin Geisler
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Martin Geisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I normally keep my Gnus running at all times on my work computer. >> Is it safe to copy files back and forth in that case? > > No. I thought so... :-) >> As I understand it, Gnus saves its changes in the dribble fi

Re: Synchronizing multiple computers

2008-01-30 Thread David
Martin Geisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I normally keep my Gnus running at all times on my work computer. Is it > safe to copy files back and forth in that case? No. > As I understand it, Gnus saves its changes in the dribble file which is > saved into the .newsrc.eld file at shutdown. I don

Re: Synchronizing multiple computers

2008-01-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I normally keep my Gnus running at all times on my work computer. Is it > safe to copy files back and forth in that case? No. Stefan ___ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-

Re: Synchronizing multiple computers

2008-01-29 Thread Martin Geisler
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Martin Geisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Is there a way to synchronize the read newsgroups messages too? My home >> computer is not always online, but the other is always running. > > See this page on the emacswiki: > > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki

Re: Synchronizing multiple computers

2008-01-28 Thread David
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") ] > | `

Re: Synchronizing multiple computers

2008-01-28 Thread Reiner Steib
On Mon, Jan 28 2008, David wrote: > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GnusSync | To make things more concise, I like to put all files I want to sync | in one central Gnus-directory. Create a directory ~/Gnus and put the | following into your .gnus right at the beginning: | | (setq gnus-home-d

Re: Synchronizing multiple computers

2008-01-28 Thread David
Martin Geisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a way to synchronize the read newsgroups messages too? My home > computer is not always online, but the other is always running. See this page on the emacswiki: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GnusSync -David

Synchronizing multiple computers

2008-01-28 Thread Martin Geisler
Hello everybody, I'm a very happy Gnus user, but there is one thing that I still don't know how to achieve: I use Gnus at two computers to access mail and news, but when I go from one computer to another, Gnus does not know which posts I have read on the other. The mail is stored on an IMAP serve