From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Reeder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Init error message Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 07:53:21 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1fgba.43206$sf5.31886@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net> <24Oba.66302$qi4.41393@rwcrnsc54> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso885915 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1047542199 8688 80.91.224.249 (13 Mar 2003 07:56:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 07:56:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 13 08:56:38 2003 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 18tNZu-0002Fy-00 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:56:38 +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 18tNZ0-0008WQ-08 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 02:55:42 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!sccrnsc04.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Pan/0.11.2 (Unix) X-Comment-To: "Le Wang" Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.211.78.13 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com Original-X-Trace: sccrnsc04 1047542001 12.211.78.13 (Thu, 13 Mar 2003 07:53:21 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 07:53:21 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:111039 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:7539 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:7539 On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:14:10 -0800, Le Wang wrote: > XEmacs is a fine emacs. Use what you want. But PLEASE don't go out of > your way to antagonize people. > > -- > Le I'm puzzled by this last remark not only because the newsgroup is titled GNU.emacs.help but also I'm wary of the delicate feelings connected with peoples' relationship with their editor and chose my words carefully. One responder brought up the issue of the Xemacs init file (see above, "Emacs does not have auto-save.el -- was the code from an XEmacs user?"), so, in responding, I included the information that I had, in fact, been using that emacs. Finally, one clever responder made an ironic comment to which I retorted a admittedly feeble effort at tasteful irony. Altogether, it seems a stretch to say that I was deliberately antagonizing people. I'll salt the lesson away, nonetheless. Back to my init file efforts. I've set my old .emacs aside for now and started with a blank slate (tabula rasa as it were). Next I've gotten deeper into the Emacs info node (bonk!) as a new companion to my O'Reilly manual. Thus, I'm moving ahead and learning as I go. Thanks for the tips one and all. Kevin