From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9142 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: feren@ctron.com (Andrew C. Feren) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: curiosity question Date: 09 Dec 1996 09:44:58 -0500 Sender: feren%cola@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035149212 16709 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:26:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:26:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@ifi.uio.no Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id HAA12693 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 07:08:45 -0800 Original-Received: from gatekeeper.ctron.com (ctron.com [134.141.197.25]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id ; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 15:50:09 +0100 Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by gatekeeper.ctron.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA11386; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 09:50:00 -0500 Original-Received: from stealth.ctron.com(134.141.5.107) by gatekeeper via smap (V1.3mjr) id sma011178; Mon Dec 9 09:47:35 1996 Original-Received: from cola.ctron by stealth.ctron.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA27098; Mon, 9 Dec 96 09:53:38 EST Original-Received: by cola.ctron (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA03800; Mon, 9 Dec 1996 09:44:58 -0500 Original-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 06 Dec 1996 14:32:20 +0100 Original-Lines: 24 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9142 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9142 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > feren@ctron.com (Andrew C. Feren) writes: > > > Other than avoiding clutter are there any other reasons to us a .gnus > > file? > > Well, the .gnus.el file is read each time you start Gnus, which can be > good or bad. Or in my case indifferent. > Also, many of the Gnus variables are defined when .gnus.el is > evaled, which can be a plus. Or not. Ah ha. That explains a problem I once had. I guess maybe it will be worth the effor to move things around after all. Thanks to everyone for their replies. -- -Andrew Feren (feren@ctron.com) Cabletron Systems Inc. Durham, NH