Re: getting started again

["Eric S. Johansson" <esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kai Großjohann" <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
To: "Eric S. Johansson" <esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us>
Cc: <ding@gnus.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: getting started again was:Re: Python Emacs (was Re: The
<word>.<word>.<word> rule)


> "Eric S. Johansson" <esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us> writes:
>
> > I'm perfectly willing to play the role of an idiot user and make the
whole
> > process of learning very transparent so that the documentation and
> > instructions on how to get started can be improved.  Is this something
> > people on the list are willing to do?
>
> I'm interested in improving the Gnus documentation.  I make no
> promises as to the speed, but I can promise that I will tick all todo
> items and will try to get to all of them eventually.
>
> I'm sure others would be willing to do that, too.

well, I am looking forward to ditching outlook... so, here's the start of my
experiences

Installing and loading up gnus:

the documentation covers how to download gnus just fine.  I wasn't able to
dig out the information on how to install it and let emacs find it.
Rummaging through some old notes, I found:

cd into the gnus directory.  Type "./configure" then type "make" which will
byte compile the gnus package.  (How do you do this on Windows/NT/w2k?  I
did the byte compile on my Linux box and I'm accessing the image via Samba
as you'll see below.)

enter the following line into your .emacs file and exit then re-enter emacs
to activate the changes (is there a better way to do this?)
Don't forget to change the path in quotes to your path leading to the gnus
package.

(setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "\\harvee\esj\elcode\gnus\lisp")
load-path))

(if I didn't have the notes, I would have been seriously up the creek on
installation.)

startup news by typing: "M-x gnus".  At this point you should see a screen
containing 3 groups (at least I did).  The groups I found were:
gnu.emacs.gnus, nndoc+gnus-help:gnus-help and nndraft:drafts

***READ THE GNUS-HELP MESSAGES***

--------- now I need to stop and go back to billable. futher adventures
later. -------
--- eric