[gnu.emacs.gnus] default output path request

djm@ENG.UMD.EDU (David J. MacKenzie) (02/23/90)

For outputting an article to a file, one of the formats that rn
supports but GNUS doesn't come with is "news.group/article".  That is,
I would like to have the minibuffer prompt after I hit o or ^o to be
~/News/gnu.emacs.gnus/
so I can save the articles in that directory with descriptive names.
GNUS supports
~/News/gnu/emacs/gnus/
and
~/News/[gnu.emacs.gnus]
(where the newsgroup is a file name, not a directory name),
but not what I want.  Can someone provide some lisp to do what I want?
I'm getting tired of typing in the newsgroup name manually, and I'm
not a good lisp hacker.  I tried to modify one of the default output
functions to do what I wanted, but couldn't figure out how.
--
David J. MacKenzie <djm@eng.umd.edu> <djm@ai.mit.edu>

umerin@tc.Nagasaki.GO.JP (Masanobu UMEDA) (02/23/90)

>>>>> In article <9002221842.AA11802@eng.umd.edu>, djm@ENG.UMD.EDU (David J. MacKenzie) writes:

David> For outputting an article to a file, one of the formats that rn
David> supports but GNUS doesn't come with is "news.group/article".  That is,
David> I would like to have the minibuffer prompt after I hit o or ^o to be
David> ~/News/gnu.emacs.gnus/
David> so I can save the articles in that directory with descriptive names.
David> GNUS supports
David> ~/News/gnu/emacs/gnus/
David> and
David> ~/News/[gnu.emacs.gnus]
David> (where the newsgroup is a file name, not a directory name),

Set the variable gnus-mail-save-name or gnus-file-save-name (depends
on your default saver) to gnus-numeric-save-name, and set the variable
gnus-use-long-file-name to t.  I hope this helps you.
--
Masanobu UMEDA
umerin@tc.Nagasaki.GO.JP