`gnus-agent-batch' when `nntp-server-list-active-group' is `nil'?

`gnus-agent-batch' when `nntp-server-list-active-group' is `nil'?

[Mike McEwan]

  Every-time I invoke gnus-agent-batch it sets my
`nntp-server-list-active-group' to `try' despite the fact that I
explicitly set to to 'nil' in my ~/.gnus.el. I know this is being done
as a result of:

  `(defvoo nntp-server-list-active-group 'try)' 

  in nntp.el as over-typing this `try' with `nil' fixes the problem. I
have tried the following in my ~/.emacs, but no joy -
`nntp-server-list-active-group' *still* gets set back to `try':

(setq load-path (cons (expand-file-name "/usr/lib/xemacs/site-lisp/gnus/lisp") load-path))
(require 'nntp)
(message "Is nntp.el loaded: %s" (featurep 'nntp))
(autoload 'gnus-agent-batch "gnus-agent")

  the `message' clearly says `t' - nntp.el has been loaded. This is
prior to my ~/.gnus.el being read. What am I missing here? 
  

-- 
Mike.

Re: `gnus-agent-batch' when `nntp-server-list-active-group' is `nil'?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Mike McEwan <mike@lotusland.demon.co.uk> writes:

>   Every-time I invoke gnus-agent-batch it sets my
> `nntp-server-list-active-group' to `try' despite the fact that I
> explicitly set to to 'nil' in my ~/.gnus.el.

if you want to alter default nnoo "variable" values, you have to do
that before the nnoo'd package is loaded.  Which makes .emacs the most
likely place to do that.

-- 
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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen