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From: John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>
To: Jon Fineman <jon@fineman.me>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problem customizing nov
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 12:43:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31q4w7s90.wl-covici@ccs.covici.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r0cxgqet.fsf@ryzen.jonjfineman.com>

Works fine --- thanks a lot.

On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 05:58:34 -0400,
Jon Fineman wrote:
> 
> 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/")
> 
> 

-- 
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



  reply	other threads:[~2024-06-16 16:43 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
2024-06-16 16:43   ` John Covici [this message]
2024-06-16 17:57     ` Jude DaShiell

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