Variable: gnus-split-methods

gnus-split-methods is a customizable variable defined in gnus-art.el.gz.

Value

((gnus-article-archive-name)
 (gnus-article-nndoc-name))

Documentation

Variable used to suggest where articles are to be saved.

For instance, if you would like to save articles related to Gnus in the file "gnus-stuff", and articles related to VM in "vm-stuff", you could set this variable to something like:

  (("^Subject:.*gnus\\|^Newsgroups:.*gnus" "gnus-stuff")
   ("^Subject:.*vm\\|^Xref:.*vm" "vm-stuff"))

This variable is an alist where the key is the match and the value is a list of possible files to save in if the match is non-nil.

If the match is a string, it is used as a regexp match on the article. If the match is a symbol, that symbol will be funcalled from the buffer of the article to be saved with the newsgroup as the parameter. If it is a list, it will be evalled in the same buffer.

If this form or function returns a string, this string will be used as a possible file name; and if it returns a non-nil list, that list will be used as possible file names.

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 19.32.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el.gz
(defcustom gnus-split-methods
  '((gnus-article-archive-name)
    (gnus-article-nndoc-name))
  "Variable used to suggest where articles are to be saved.
For instance, if you would like to save articles related to Gnus in
the file \"gnus-stuff\", and articles related to VM in \"vm-stuff\",
you could set this variable to something like:

  ((\"^Subject:.*gnus\\|^Newsgroups:.*gnus\" \"gnus-stuff\")
   (\"^Subject:.*vm\\|^Xref:.*vm\" \"vm-stuff\"))

This variable is an alist where the key is the match and the
value is a list of possible files to save in if the match is
non-nil.

If the match is a string, it is used as a regexp match on the
article.  If the match is a symbol, that symbol will be funcalled
from the buffer of the article to be saved with the newsgroup as the
parameter.  If it is a list, it will be evalled in the same buffer.

If this form or function returns a string, this string will be used as a
possible file name; and if it returns a non-nil list, that list will be
used as possible file names."
  :group 'gnus-article-saving
  :type '(repeat (choice (list :value (fun) function)
			 (cons :value ("" "") regexp (repeat string))
			 (sexp :value nil))))