Re: merge .gnus.el and .emacs to .emacs ?

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Jan 20 2005, Norbert Koch wrote:

> William Xuuu <william_xuuu@163.com> writes:
>
>> All my configs reside in .emacs except .gnus.el, so i'm wondering how to
>> put .gnus.el in .emacs ? I tried cut-and-paste directly, but it doesn't
>> seem to work. 

*What* doesn't work?  Did the monitor explode?  Any errors?  What does
the *Messages* buffer say?

>> Any ideas ?
>
> Gnus reads the contents of gnus-init-file at startup.  You would have
> to set this to your .emacs.  But I wouldn't recommend that.

I wouldn't recommend this neither.  OTOH I don't see any reason why it
should not work to put everything in `~/.emacs'.  If ~/.gnus doesn't
exist, it is ignored:

ELISP> (let ((gnus-init-file "~/FOO-BAR"))
         (gnus-read-init-file))
nil

Bye, Reiner.
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