Re: gnus-setup not being required?

[Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>]

>>>>> "Sean" == Sean Lynch <seanl@Internex.NET> writes:

Sean> It doesn't look like gnus-setup is being required anywhere.  Am
Sean> I supposed to require this myself in .gnus.el?

It is too late to load it in .gnus.el.  It is intended to be loaded in
.emacs or default.el with site-wide policy (and it's one of those
files that should be explicitly loaded as a .el, and not bytecompiled).

Sean> I noticed this because when I stopped manually setting
Sean> message-cite-function, it was being set to
Sean> message-cite-original, even though from gnus-setup.el, which I
Sean> assumed was being loaded, it definitely should have been set to
Sean> sc-cite-original.

Sean> I'm sure I'm just missing something here.  Someone hand me a clue.

Gnus-setup.el is provided as a more convenient way to set up your
environment before you load Gnus.  It is especially helpful if you are
using a version of Gnus not included with your Emacs.

It's not clear whether there is any usefulness left to it.  For the
typical user, using components only in emacs, there's not much of a
point to using it.  The emacs distribution should already have things
set up properly.

Other users with more sophisticated requirements (multiple versions of
Gnus for Emacs *and* XEmacs, tm, mailcrypt, etc.) can easily take care
of themselves.  My current initialization of Gnus & company using
gnus-setup.el requires about as much setup code as is already in
gnus-setup (but I have a far from typical setup regularly using 4
different emacsen).

HTH
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