fortune errors

fortune errors

[Mads Jensen]

Hi NG,

I found some code snippets for adding a small fortune-cookie, when you
send out emails, but I'm getting this bug for some strange reason:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Can't compile fortune file
  /home/madsj/docs/ascii/misc/fortunes/usenet") signal(error ("Can't
  compile fortune file /home/madsj/docs/ascii/misc/fortunes/usenet"))
  error("Can't compile fortune file %s"
  "/home/madsj/docs/ascii/misc/fortunes/usenet")
  fortune-compile("/home/madsj/docs/ascii/misc/fortunes/usenet")
  fortune-in-buffer(nil nil) fortune-to-signature()
  run-hooks(mail-setup-hook) mail-setup(nil nil nil nil nil nil)
  mail(nil) * call-interactively(mail) execute-extended-command(nil)
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command)

I have these lines in my ~/.emacs, that should control the fortune
cookie thing:

(require 'fortune)
(add-hook 'mail-setup-hook 'fortune-to-signature)
(setq fortune-dir "/usr/share/games/fortune"
      fortune-file "/usr/share/games/fortune/fortunes")

But I still get this weird error. Can anyone please help me ?
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Re: fortune errors

[drkm]

Mads Jensen <spam@raptus.dk> writes:

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Can't compile fortune file
>   /home/madsj/docs/ascii/misc/fortunes/usenet")

> (require 'fortune)
> (add-hook 'mail-setup-hook 'fortune-to-signature)
> (setq fortune-dir "/usr/share/games/fortune"
>       fortune-file "/usr/share/games/fortune/fortunes")

  Very strange.  'fortune-file' seems to keep its initial value.
Does switching the 'setq' before the 'require' help?  But IMHO it
will not change anything.

    (setq fortune-dir  "/usr/share/games/fortune"
          fortune-file "/usr/share/games/fortune/fortunes")
    (require 'fortune)
    (add-hook 'mail-setup-hook 'fortune-to-signature)

  BTW, because 'fortune-to-signature' is an autoload, you don't
need the 'require'.  So the feature will be loaded only if used.

--drkm