From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Loading local .emacs from remote machine Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 10:06:52 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E4144AC.1070502@ihs.com> References: <841y2mvqj5.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044466853 25127 80.91.224.249 (5 Feb 2003 17:40:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 17:40:53 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18gTHo-0005el-00 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 18:24:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18gTDs-0008HA-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2003 12:20:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1044464807 39708866 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:109832 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6339 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6339 mil_DocOutAbsgebser@ameritech.net wrote: > Kai Großjohann at 13:51 (UTC+0100) on Wed, 5 Feb 2003 said: > > = gebser@ameritech.net writes: > = > = > Kai Großjohann at 18:30 (UTC+0100) on Tue, 4 Feb 2003 said: > = > > = > I was following the documentation. What would be the way to load a > = > *.texi file? > = > = It doesn't make sense to "load" a *.texi file. You can convert it to > = info format with M-x texinfo-format-buffer RET or with the external > = makeinfo program. (Though the latter doesn't work in this case, of > = course...) > > Hmmm.... I loaded tramp.texi into a buffer, then did "M-x > texinfo-format-buffer RET" and it halted midway with the cursor on a > line saying "@macro trampver{}" and with the comment "@macro is not > handled by texinfo". In Emacs terminology, you visited the file in a buffer (via `find-file'). The term "load" specifically means to load an Emacs Lisp source (.el) or byte-compiled (.elc) file. -- Kevin Rodgers