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Re: Location of .gnus init file
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Ed C. |
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Re: Location of .gnus init file |
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Sun, 08 Feb 2015 21:53:06 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) |
Rainer Thiel <r.thiel@uni-jena.de> writes:
> I am keeping my home directory ~/ synchronized through several machines
> and am trying to place the .gnus init file elsewhere than in ~/. This
> works fine when I put
>
> > (setq gnus-init-file "C:/Emacs-local/.gnus.d/.gnus.el")
> > (setq gnus-directory "C:/Emacs-local/.gnus.d/")
> > (setq gnus-home-directory "C:/Emacs-local/.gnus.d/")
> > (setq gnus-startup-file (concat gnus-home-directory ".newsrc"))
>
> in my .emacs init file. In this case, emacs/gnus reads .gnus.el from
> C:/Emacs-local/.gnus.d/ and writes/reads .newsrc and .newsrc.eld to/from
> this very directory, as expected.
>
> So far, so good. As I'd prefer to configure gnus on a machine-dependent
> basis, I tried to put the code cited above in my site-start.el. This
> does not have the desired effect, though.
>
> Can someone please tell me why, and what I could do?
>
> Many thanks in advance
>
> Rainer
According to this:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eintr/Site_002dwide-Init.html
maybe you should put it in default.el, which .emacs won't overwrite.
Worth a try.
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