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Re: syncing groups/topics arrangement between machines?
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Benjamin Slade |
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Re: syncing groups/topics arrangement between machines? |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Dec 2015 23:45:45 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@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.
- syncing groups/topics arrangement between machines?, Benjamin Slade, 2015/12/27
- Re: syncing groups/topics arrangement between machines?, Emanuel Berg, 2015/12/27
- Re: syncing groups/topics arrangement between machines?, Benjamin Slade, 2015/12/27
- Re: syncing groups/topics arrangement between machines?, Emanuel Berg, 2015/12/27
- Re: syncing groups/topics arrangement between machines?, Eric Abrahamsen, 2015/12/27
- Re: syncing groups/topics arrangement between machines?, Benjamin Slade, 2015/12/28
- Re: syncing groups/topics arrangement between machines?, Benjamin Slade, 2015/12/28