From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64592 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Gnus initialization file in the manual (was: [gnus.commits] Changes committed gnus/texi (ChangeLog gnus.texi)) Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 20:02:53 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178561010 17844 80.91.229.12 (7 May 2007 18:03:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 18:03:30 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M13103@lists.math.uh.edu Mon May 07 20:03:29 2007 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 4.50) id 1Hl7YW-0004ir-0d for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 07 May 2007 20:03:28 +0200 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 1Hl7Xn-0007ll-6Z; Mon, 07 May 2007 13:02:43 -0500 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 1Hl7Xl-0007lX-WB for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 07 May 2007 13:02:42 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Hl7Xh-0005hO-Qc for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 07 May 2007 13:02:41 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Hl7Xg-0007b0-00 for ; Mon, 07 May 2007 20:02:36 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Hl7Xb-0005Bs-UB for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 07 May 2007 20:02:32 +0200 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.10.123]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 May 2007 20:02:31 +0200 Original-Received: from Reiner.Steib by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 May 2007 20:02:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de X-Face: 1;h7XMU[7l}$T@J.D}5z*w8Tg'}B5ArAWc8>2X~otB;kOjKs8X%|hTC#dG:%Vpx")x7S/`v :VXU#fZW$X$zdhEU.RfVQ@<-m9IuN{Hm"fW{,5]6kR'M*vEs+{5Cj!L(JTRzA$(},?5J=sm;%Od Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64592 Archived-At: On Mon, May 07 2007, Didier Verna wrote: >> +2007-05-03 Reiner Steib >> + >> + * gnus.texi (Running NNDiary): Use ~/.gnus.el instead of gnusrc. >> + [...] > Actually, I had used intentionally "gnusrc" as a generic term for the > Gnus initialization file, I think it's confusing to use "gnusrc". The term "gnusrc" is not common—at least I have never seen it before. > because this file is customizable, so ~/gnus.el is not very > accurate[1]. [ You meant ~/.gnus.el, I suppose. ] If the user know how to change `gnus-init-file', (s)he should be aware that the manual describes the default name. The same holds for `.newsrc', ~/News/, ~/Mail/, ~/.authinfo, key bindings etc. > If you don't like "gnusrc", maybe we could use something like "gnus > init file" throughout the manual, possibly with an xref to the "Gnus > Startup Files" section of the manual ? It will clutter the manual and I don't think this will help the user. > By default, it can also be just ".gnus". I'd recommend ".el" because (X)Emacs will automatically open it in Lisp mode. "~/" makes it more clear that it in HOME. The dot is easy to miss (at least for Unix-Newbies): There was actually a user who edited lisp/gnus.el! In 2003, I've changed the manual to use ~/.gnus.el throughout (and fixed the markup) to avoid confusion. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/