From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/881 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: maierh@myself.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: difference btw .emacs vs .gnus? Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 07:00:31 +0200 Organization: T-Online Message-ID: References: <86vg6na6a0.fsf@gmx.net> Reply-To: Harald Maier NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667761 8796 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:36:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:36:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:15 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!news.ccs.neu.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!colt.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1028696431 02 29799 j5NhbnpXS8AFQp 020807 05:00:31 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-Sender: 320041125923-0001@t-dialin.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2.90 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1EgX608YSFdawwGQhlkovhUThfg= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1021 Original-Lines: 41 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1021 Tue Jan 17 17:28:15 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:881 Archived-At: Patrick Drechsler writes: > My question concerning GNUS is: If I choose the way of > customizing via 'M-x customize-variable whatever I end up > with all my customizations in my ~/.emacs and not in ~/.gnus. Why > doesn't the customization routine (which I prefere using as newbie) > automatically write things like the following stuff: > > '(gnus-check-new-newsgroups nil) > '(gnus-default-posting-charset (quote iso-8859-15)) > '(gnus-keep-backlog 100) > '(gnus-secondary-select-methods (quote ((nnml "")))) > '(gnus-select-method (quote (nntp "news.t-online.de"))) > '(mail-sources (quote ((file :path "/var/spool/mail/patrick")))) > > into ~/.gnus? Should I have created that directory in advance? As far > is I have perceived the (very amusing, but still complicated for me) > documentation it doesn't make a difference if emacs reads just the > ~/.emacs and then ~/.gnus, but I would like to have different > configuration files for different purposes. Up to now my main concern > was devoted to finishing my thesis using LaTeX/emacs... > > It comes down to this: > > How do I set up my ~/.emacs correctly to include ~/.gnus and all other > "options" (maybe something like latexuser.el, which include my LaTeX > preferences) correctly? And is it ok to just cut&past the above > customization out of ~/.emacs into ~/.gnus? I don't understand exactly your question but you have the freedom to specify a custom-file so you don't clutter your .emacs and .gnus files. gnus reads the ~/.gnus file. And emacs reads as startup file the ~/.emacs file. So I would put only gnus stuff into the ~/.gnus file. All the other stuff should be included in the ~/.emacs file. Here an example to specify a separate custom file. --- .emacs --- (setq custom-file "~/build/cvs/test/custom.el") (if (file-exists-p custom-file) (load-file custom-file))