From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: TheFlyingDutchman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to learn lisp Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:12:53 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <87r66ah1uo.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224643291 22420 80.91.229.12 (22 Oct 2008 02:41:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:41:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 22 04:42:32 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KsTg5-00021y-OG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:42:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37490 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KsTf0-0005D8-DB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:41:22 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a3g2000prm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 9 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.91.147.34 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1224641573 2228 127.0.0.1 (22 Oct 2008 02:12:53 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:12:53 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a3g2000prm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=192.91.147.34; posting-account=9bWHAAoAAAAxSFC_2O_ssTETNW9NhMbW User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163676 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59016 Archived-At: > -batch option is, IMO, a bad idea for a beginner since the user > =A0has to know what -batch implies internally (what it does, what > =A0it can't do, etc.). > I found out after some head scratching, that the .emacs init file is not read when in batch mode. What are some of the other things to be aware of in batch mode?