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From: Glyn Millington <wistanswick@linuxmail.org>
Subject: Re: jed -> gnus newbie
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 08:38:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r73az1cx.fsf@nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874q06ckyp.fsf@nothome.com>

notbob <notbob@nothome.com> writes:

> Glyn Millington <wistanswick@linuxmail.org> writes:
>
>
>> Well you can use 
>> 
>> (setq user-full-name "NOT BOB")
>> (setq user-mail-address "notbob@myplace.org")
>
> Holy freakin' crap! ...thanks, Glyn.  Gawd, I thought I was never
> going to find those variables ...well, actually I still haven't, but I
> know what to look for now and it seems to work.  I posted to a test
> ng ok.  

Works here too - bravo!


> Again, thanks.  Sometimes emacs documentation is so vast and emacs so
> complex, one gets completely lost in it. 

It's a whole new world!


The Emacs Wiki is a _very_ useful site:-

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki

And for all those lovely packages which ensure that you will _never_ have
to leave Emacs ever again ............


http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/sje30/emacs/ell.html

> I'll need it.  No, jes kidding ...I'm doing ok.  I've finally reached
> the point where I no longer need to use other apps while just
> diddling around in emacs.  I can stay in emacs for many of the things
> I do.  

That's the spirit :-)

atb




Glyn

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-04  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-04  1:17 notbob
2006-05-04  5:28 ` Glyn Millington
2006-05-04  7:23   ` notbob
2006-05-04  7:38     ` Glyn Millington [this message]
2006-05-04  9:08       ` notbob
2006-05-04  9:11         ` notbob
2006-05-04  9:19         ` Glyn Millington
2006-05-04 12:52           ` Reiner Steib
2006-05-04 10:05         ` Tassilo Horn

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