From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17467 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alberto Luaces Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: When does gnus read .gnus.el variables Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 18:52:29 +0100 Message-ID: <87zj7rjpr6.fsf@eps142.cdf.udc.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1425577987 26261 80.91.229.3 (5 Mar 2015 17:53:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 17:53:07 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 05 18:52:59 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YTZxD-0002do-0S for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Mar 2015 18:52:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53421 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YTZxC-0004TA-EN for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Mar 2015 12:52:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50742) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YTZx5-0004IB-SQ for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Mar 2015 12:52:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YTZx1-0004yj-Sp for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Mar 2015 12:52:51 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46871) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YTZx1-0004yZ-Mx for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Mar 2015 12:52:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YTZwy-0002Tz-V9 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Mar 2015 18:52:45 +0100 Original-Received: from 180eps.cdf.udc.es ([193.147.37.180]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Mar 2015 18:52:44 +0100 Original-Received: from aluaces by 180eps.cdf.udc.es with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Mar 2015 18:52:44 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 180eps.cdf.udc.es User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:E4NttT+VmC0c08RfBdXE0hBMWUA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:17467 Archived-At: Hi, this could be more of an elisp question rather than a gnus question, but there it goes: Once I have gnus up and running, I want to modify my nnimap-split-fancy variable. Therefore, I evaluate a sexp with the new values, and change .gnus.el accordingly for future sessions. All works ok. When I quit gnus *without quitting* emacs, and then restart gnus again, nnimap-split-fancy stays with its initial value. Maybe it is no surprise that it is not reading .gnus.el again, but I wonder why my on-the-fly settings were also dropped. Any chance of setting this variable without having to restart emacs? Thanks, -- Alberto