Re: Gnus drafts setup issues
Martin Kjær Jørgensen <[email protected]>
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On 03/12/26 15:36 PM, Óscar Fuentes wrote: > Martin Kjær Jørgensen <[email protected]> writes: > >>> See if there is anything in the drafts directory (should be empty if you >>> don't have drafts). >>> >> >> Draft directory is empty of text files, but does contain another 'drafts' >> directory: >> >> .emacs.d/gnus/ >> └── news >> └── drafts >> ├── drafts <-- >> └── queue >> >> describe-variable nndraft-directory shows: >> >> nndraft-directory is a variable defined in ‘nndraft.el’. >> >> Its value is "/home/mkj/.emacs.d/gnus/news/drafts/" > > Yeah, my drafts directory also contain those subdirectories, I was > confused by the contents of drafts/drafts (which must be empty if you > don't have any ongoing drafts.) > > The value of nndraft-directory is non-standard, so your install must > have at least one of gnus-home-directory, gnus-directory or the SAVEDIR > environment variable set. What's your full gnus config? And on which > file are those settings? (Please note that .gnus.el is not the right one > for the variables mentioned above.) I am not using .gnus.el so that file shouldn't be a problem. > > Really, the best way to address this issue is to step through the draft > creation code with the debugger, but not all users are eager to > experience such level of excitement. > Neither have I got the time for such an adventure now :-) Good news, though. In the meantime I have cleaned out my init.el including the gnus/message-mode area, and it seems the cleaning did the trick. nndraft now correctly saves the draft mails as numbered files in drafts/drafts/ . I'm not sure why this happened all of a sudden. Perhaps I got close to Emacs bankruptcy... A part of me whats to find the culprit, another part of me just want to forget it.