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From: lawrence mitchell <s0198183+ding@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: How to make gnus read something besides .gnus in batch mode
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 22:22:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ould6gwzihp.fsf@ID-97657.usr.dfncis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3fzlsvltc.fsf@newsguy.com> (Harry Putnam's message of "Sun, 29 Jun 2003 10:24:31 -0700")

Harry Putnam wrote:

> I want to run batch commands but not read my standard .emacs .gnus
> site-start.el.   I've learned from the past that things in any init
> files that write to standard out like (message) can cause I/O errors.
> But I like having some of those in there... so:

> I compile an init file on the fly for gnus (or emacs) to read.  But
> how can I aim gnus at only that file?

[...]

How about something along the lines of:

emacs -batch --eval '(setq gnus-init-file "~/.not-dot-gnus")' \
 -f gnus-agent-batch

-- 
lawrence mitchell <s0198183+ding@sms.ed.ac.uk>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-29 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-29 17:24 Harry Putnam
2003-06-29 20:47 ` Harry Putnam
2003-06-30  4:32   ` John Paul Wallington
2003-06-30  6:25     ` Harry Putnam
2003-06-30  7:01       ` John Paul Wallington
2003-06-30 15:07         ` Harry Putnam
2003-06-30 17:06           ` John Paul Wallington
2003-06-29 21:22 ` lawrence mitchell [this message]
2003-07-01  0:15 ` Harry Putnam
2003-07-01 14:17   ` Harry Putnam

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