From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Colin Baxter Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Bug or feature? Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 16:00:12 +0100 Message-ID: <87mu7a6ttv.fsf@yandex.com> References: <87tv1i6ufl.fsf@yandex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="49903"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:K/LT/g9HiuNUeDTrM7X2trk//C4= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 17 17:01:05 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jPSUK-000Cir-Kl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:01:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48138 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jPSUJ-0000SN-O3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 11:01:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47924) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jPSTi-0000MD-IZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 11:00:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jPSTe-0007U1-Vd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 11:00:26 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([159.69.161.202]:38210) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jPSTe-0007Tb-Pp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 11:00:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jPSTc-000C5n-SP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:00:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Face: -P+89ASh_wrs;AUGm`!l[}/o-lyK}5W.gq\fkJ{#d6Gu,hWrZNz::iMm5PJb} __A96]-LUrl)X=uF=V|\3-\9/sXvBs/H Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAA8AAAAPCAIAAAC0tAIdAAAABmJLR0QA/wD/AP+gvaeTAAAA LklEQVQokWP4z8CABTU0/McGmBhIASNDNeP/hgYSlGMN1/8NDVjjYfD4cvCoBgDbyj3fdejvjwAA AABJRU5ErkJggg== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 159.69.161.202 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:122868 Archived-At: >>>>> Colin Baxter writes: > Suppose you do > 1. emacs 2. M-x gnus > We will assume this works - it generally does if your ~/.emacs and > ~/.gnus.el are good :-). But > 1. emacs -q 2. M-x load-library 3. ~/.emacs > 4. M-x gnus > will produce an error. You must do > i. M-x load-library ii. ~/.gnus.el > before step (4). We assume that the file ~/.emacs does not have > the line (load-library "~/.gnus.el"). > Is this simply a feature of the "-q" option or a bug? Thinking about it more, this is a feature because "emacs -q" will not have any default settings, such as the location of the gnus init file. Sorry about the original post. Best wishes, Colin Baxter URL: http://www.Colin-Baxter.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG fingerprint: 68A8 799C 0230 16E7 BF68 2A27 BBFA 2492 91F5 41C8 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms. Blaise Pascal, 1670