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29.1; gnus-home-directory

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From: Deepak Negi <www.deepaknegilachu <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 29.1; gnus-home-directory
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 20:50:02 +0530

Gnus email client doesn't storing "Mail News and newsrc-dribble" in
user-emacs-directory, which is "~/.config/emacs/" in my case.
even i have setup   "(setq gnus-home-directory (expand-file-name "gnus/" user-emacs-directory))"
and created that directory there myself.

Thank you


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Message #8 received at 66501 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Deepak Negi <www.deepaknegilachu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 66501 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#66501: 29.1; gnus-home-directory
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 09:46:10 -0700

Deepak Negi <www.deepaknegilachu <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Gnus email client doesn't storing "Mail News and newsrc-dribble" in
> user-emacs-directory, which is "~/.config/emacs/" in my case.
> even i have setup   "(setq gnus-home-directory (expand-file-name "gnus/" user-emacs-directory))"
> and created that directory there myself.

Try also setting `gnus-directory' to that same path or something inside
it.

If that isn't sufficient, this is what I had to do in gnus-mock to make
sure absolutely all Gnus-related everything went in the same directory:

(setq some-directory "~/.config/emacs/gnus"
      gnus-home-directory some-directory
      gnus-directory (expand-file-name "News/" some-directory)
      message-directory some-directory
      gnus-startup-file (expand-file-name ".newsrc" some-directory)
      gnus-init-file (expand-file-name ".gnus.el" some-directory)
      nndraft-directory (expand-file-name "drafts/" some-directory)
      gnus-agent-directory (expand-file-name "agent/" some-directory))

Message #11 received at 66501 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>,
 Deepak Negi <www.deepaknegilachu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 66501 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#66501: 29.1; gnus-home-directory
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 18:16:50 +0000

Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> If that isn't sufficient, this is what I had to do in gnus-mock to make
> sure absolutely all Gnus-related everything went in the same directory:
>
> (setq some-directory "~/.config/emacs/gnus"
>       gnus-home-directory some-directory
>       gnus-directory (expand-file-name "News/" some-directory)
>       message-directory some-directory
>       gnus-startup-file (expand-file-name ".newsrc" some-directory)
>       gnus-init-file (expand-file-name ".gnus.el" some-directory)
>       nndraft-directory (expand-file-name "drafts/" some-directory)
>       gnus-agent-directory (expand-file-name "agent/" some-directory))

Is it really supposed to be this hard to customize?

Message #14 received at 66501 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>,
 Deepak Negi <www.deepaknegilachu <at> gmail.com>, 66501 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#66501: 29.1; gnus-home-directory
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 21:24:38 +0200

On Okt 12 2023, Stefan Kangas wrote:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> If that isn't sufficient, this is what I had to do in gnus-mock to make
>> sure absolutely all Gnus-related everything went in the same directory:
>>
>> (setq some-directory "~/.config/emacs/gnus"
>>       gnus-home-directory some-directory
>>       gnus-directory (expand-file-name "News/" some-directory)
>>       message-directory some-directory
>>       gnus-startup-file (expand-file-name ".newsrc" some-directory)
>>       gnus-init-file (expand-file-name ".gnus.el" some-directory)
>>       nndraft-directory (expand-file-name "drafts/" some-directory)
>>       gnus-agent-directory (expand-file-name "agent/" some-directory))
>
> Is it really supposed to be this hard to customize?

No.  Just setting gnus-home-directory is enough (though it needs to be
set before loading gnus).

-- 
Andreas Schwab, schwab <at> linux-m68k.org
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Message #17 received at 66501 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Deepak Negi <www.deepaknegilachu <at> gmail.com>,
 Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>, 66501 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#66501: 29.1; gnus-home-directory
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:10:36 -0700

On 10/12/23 21:24 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Okt 12 2023, Stefan Kangas wrote:
>
>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>
>>> If that isn't sufficient, this is what I had to do in gnus-mock to make
>>> sure absolutely all Gnus-related everything went in the same directory:
>>>
>>> (setq some-directory "~/.config/emacs/gnus"
>>>       gnus-home-directory some-directory
>>>       gnus-directory (expand-file-name "News/" some-directory)
>>>       message-directory some-directory
>>>       gnus-startup-file (expand-file-name ".newsrc" some-directory)
>>>       gnus-init-file (expand-file-name ".gnus.el" some-directory)
>>>       nndraft-directory (expand-file-name "drafts/" some-directory)
>>>       gnus-agent-directory (expand-file-name "agent/" some-directory))
>>
>> Is it really supposed to be this hard to customize?
>
> No.  Just setting gnus-home-directory is enough (though it needs to be
> set before loading gnus).

There might have been some gnus-mock-specific reason why I was doing all
that, but at this point I can't remember. I'll be curious to know if
Deepak can solve his issue by setting `gnus-home-directory' in his
(non-Gnus) init file. I suppose you'd need to set it before loading any
package that might require Gnus, as well.

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