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From: Jon Fineman <jon@fineman.me>
To: covici@ccs.covici.com, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problem customizing nov
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 05:58:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r0cxgqet.fsf@ryzen.jonjfineman.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m34j9t6xwt.wl-covici@ccs.covici.com>

John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> writes:

> Hi.  I would like to customize gnome, so the unzipped files go into a
> private directory rather than /tmp whose contents get deleted out from
> under me every so often.  Seems like I should use some argument to
> unzip, but I can't figure out what to use.  The currentt unzip args
> says
> Hide nov-unzip-args: '("-od" directory filename)
> but I am not sure how to change it to do what I need.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>
> -- 
> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> How do
> you spend it?
>
>          John Covici wb2una
>          covici@ccs.covici.com


On OpenBSD this worked for me. Other files in addition to nov files
end up there, but I was ok with that. You have to create the
directories ahead of time.

(setq temporary-file-directory "~/tmp/emacs/temp/")




  reply	other threads:[~2024-06-16  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-16  9:26 problem customizing nov John Covici
2024-06-16  9:58 ` Jon Fineman [this message]
2024-06-16 16:43   ` John Covici
2024-06-16 17:57     ` Jude DaShiell

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