Re: gnus on XP

[Chris McMahan]

What's preventing you from setting the server yourself, without
relying on the prompt?

(setq my_news_server "nntp.server.net")
(setq gnus-init-file (concat EMACS_PKGS "/.emacs-gnus"))

If you're wondering about the .emacs file, the locations are dependent
on your HOME environment variable. Open the control Panel -> System ->
Advanced (tab) -> Environment Variables

Add a HOME variable to your user settings with the appropriate value.

Launch emacs, and it will look there for your config files.

Better yet, try looking up some of the documentation that involves
emacs on windows. A lot has been written on getting emacs running
successfully on all flavors of windows, and I've been happily using it
on everything from NT3.5 to XP for 10 years now, with gnus!

- http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CategoryWThirtyTwo
- http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html

Also, on a personal note, it doesn't help your cause much when you
refer to your "suck XP box". Your issue here doesn't seem to be XP
related at all.

- Chris


notbob <notbob@nothome.com> writes:

> notbob wrote:
>> Howdy.  emacs noob, here.
>>
>> I'm occasionally stuck using a suck XP box instead of my beloved
>> Slackware.  Being a CLI freak, I d/l'd emacs to use gnus.  But, so
>> far no joy.  I ran runemacs.exe and even addpm.exe.  I also created
>> a C:\.emacs and C:\.gnus file.  In .gnus, I put:
>
> OK, it's official.  I'm losing my mind.
>
> I've tried everything, even the whole foreign server thing, to no
> avail. I had the firewall down and made sure no other news clients
> were open. I even reloaded and re-installed emacs 22.1 after deleting
> all previous emacs files.  So, I then tried gnus (M-x gnus) in the new
> install and it should prompt me for a server.  Nope!  I get only this:
>
> Loading gnus...done
> Loading gnus-start...
> Loading easymenu...done
> Loading gnus-start...done
> Loading gnus-agent...
> Loading regexp-opt...done
> Loading gnus-agent...done
> Unable to open nntp:news, go offline? (y or n)  y
>
> nntp (news) open error: ''.  Continue? (y or n)
> Couldn't open server on news
>
> IOW, this install is not even promting me for a server like emacs 21
> in Slackware does.  It's like it's broken or something.  You can tell
> it's not looking or waiting for a response, it's just instantly
> throwing up the "Unable to open..." msg without doing anything.  I've
> been working on this daily since my orig post and have found zip on
> google groups, mailing lists, irc, etc.  WTF!?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> BTW, erc is killer.  Blows irssi away.  ;)
>
> nb

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