Re: Mail/drafts is still at ~/

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

>>>>> anhnmncb wrote:
> hi, reiner:
> I tried again: write an article in newsgroup, C-x C-k to quit, then
> Mail/drafts is appeared in $HOME. Maybe I've missed something?
> My Gnus version 5.13

I tried

(setq gnus-home-directory "~/.emacs.d/gnus")
(setq message-directory (concat gnus-home-directory "/Mail"))

in ~/.gnus.el and got "~/News/drafts" for `nndraft-directory'.
It is because `nndraft-directory' is derived from `gnus-directory'
of which the default value is determined by `gnus-home-directory'
before ~/.gnus.el is loaded.  Though I don't see why you got
"~/Mail/drafts", not "~/News/drafts".  You might have the
environment variable SAVEDIR with the value "~/Mail/" perhaps.

;; gnus.el
(defcustom gnus-home-directory "~/"
  ...)
(defcustom gnus-directory (or (getenv "SAVEDIR")
                              (nnheader-concat gnus-home-directory "News/"))
  ...)

Anyway you seem to need to set `gnus-directory' explicitly like:

(setq gnus-home-directory "~/.emacs.d/gnus"
      gnus-directory (concat gnus-home-directory "/News")
      message-directory (concat gnus-home-directory "/Mail"))

Regards,