From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76092 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: how to start clean Gnus Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:41:57 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87sjwdrq62.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87sjxyvjn9.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87wrn6stiq.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <87fwttu9pt.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87r5c8o7mf.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87aait3ail.fsf@gnus.org> <87lj2achk2.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87wrlune8j.fsf@gnus.org> <87hbcy6ic8.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87vd1elyhd.fsf@gnus.org> <87wrls3ok3.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87hbcw63fa.fsf@gnus.org> <87fwsfzjp8.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87wrlruvb1.fsf@gnus.org> <87ipxauogf.fsf_-_@lifelogs.com> <87lj2528zs.fsf@gnus.org> <87wrlpcw91.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296229395 4331 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2011 15:43:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:43:15 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24444@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jan 28 16:43:11 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PiqTe-0006GJ-1L for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:43:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PiqSk-00010W-UV; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:42:14 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PiqSi-00010L-Br for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:42:12 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PiqSg-0006r6-NQ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:42:11 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PiqSe-0005la-OF for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:42:08 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PiqSe-0005bZ-Gf for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:42:08 +0100 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:42:08 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:42:08 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sLLaDHpHhUTCswRxrWuTCsguG6k= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76092 Archived-At: On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:39:38 +0100 Reiner Steib wrote: RS> On Fri, Jan 28 2011, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: >> Ted Zlatanov writes: >> >>> Slightly related: how would I start Gnus with a completely clear >>> configuration, ignoring everything in ~/News, ~/Mail, and all Gnus init >>> files? >> >> I think that's virtually impossible. :-) >> >> When I'm testing start-up-from-scratch, I create a test user and rm -r >> everything that user has first. RS> If you don't have root access: RS> emacs_test=~/path/to/my/emacs_test RS> mkdir -p $emacs_test RS> cd $emacs_test RS> ln -s ~/.Xauthority . RS> HOME=$PWD emacs & I'll work something out based on $HOME remapping, thanks for the suggestion. Ted