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[Question] Is gnus-home-directory themable? #142

Closed condy0919 closed 3 years ago

condy0919 commented 3 years ago

The default value of gnus-home-directory is ~/ which is not located at ~/.emacs.d/.

tarsius commented 3 years ago

All the variables whose default values depend on the value of this variable should be changed in the same commit; in our case without referring to the value of this variable. Some of these files should go into var, others into etc. This variable itself has to be set for the benefit of future variables. It should probably point to a directory inside etc.

tarsius commented 3 years ago

Hm wait... maybe we should only theme gnus-directory. I partially confused the two.

In any case, all the relevant variables should be themed at the same time and the commit message should carefully describe the rational. Please do that and I will then decide if I agree, require more information, or have another proposal.

condy0919 commented 3 years ago

There are amount of variables of Gnus to be themed. Let me figure out all the variables..

fernandodemorais-jf commented 3 years ago

Hello,

Sorry for commenting in an already closed issue, but I have some questions related to this topic.

Recently I've been thinking about how to theme Gnus relevant dirs properly. By reading no-littering.el guidelines I came up with this:

(setq gnus-home-directory                     (etc "gnus/"))
(setq gnus-directory                          (etc "gnus/"))
(setq gnus-init-file                          (etc "gnus/init.el"))
(setq gnus-startup-file                       (etc "gnus/startup/newsrc"))
(setq gnus-cache-directory                    (var "gnus/cache/"))
(setq message-directory                       (etc "message/"))
(setq message-signature-directory             (etc "message/signature/"))
(setq message-auto-save-directory             (var "message/auto-save/"))

Normally gnus-directory and message-directory, with their default values, creates the ~/News and ~/Mail folders, respectively.

So, my doubt is:

The correct paths, following no-littering.el specifications, is like above or is more like bellow?

(setq gnus-home-directory                     (etc "gnus/"))
(setq gnus-directory                          (etc "gnus/news/"))           ; As the default.
(setq gnus-init-file                          (etc "gnus/init.el"))
(setq gnus-startup-file                       (etc "gnus/startup/newsrc"))
(setq gnus-cache-directory                    (var "gnus/news/cache/"))     ; As the default.
(setq message-directory                       (etc "message/mail/"))        ; As the default.
(setq message-signature-directory             (etc "message/signature/"))
(setq message-auto-save-directory             (var "message/mail/drafts/")) ; As the default.

Thanks!

tarsius commented 3 years ago

Normally gnus-directory and message-directory, with their default values, creates the ~/News and ~/Mail folders, respectively.

I probably wouldn't change that. That's actual content. Not configuration (etc) or generated persistent data (var).