[14338] in Athena Bugs
Re: Emacs19: suggestions for site-init.el file
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri May 10 13:19:53 1996
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 13:19:50 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[14330] in Athena Bugs"
> (if (equal "mit.edu" gnus-local-domain) (setq gnus-local-domain nil))
> ;;; AMAZING! Unsetting the variable solves the problem.
I've looked at the code for why this is, and you're right, it's pretty
amazing. It's almost bad enough to be worth sending an emacs bug
report, but I'm not going to bother. I'll stop setting the variable.
(Note that we didn't set mail-host-address in prior versions of emacs
because it didn't used to try to send mail with a fully-qualified from
address; it assumed that sendmail would do the canonicalization.)
> (setq gnus-mode-non-string-length 27) ;Make space for line-number-mode.
Done.
> ;;; The current emacs info path is set poorly: users seeking the
> ;;; emacs19 documentation won't find it. Take steps to remedy that.
I made the (in retrospect, bad) decision to have the
/usr/athena/bin/emacs19 on the 7.7 packs refer to the old info
directory. That's never been the case for the 8.0 packs. I have,
however, added the gnu locker (which wasn't on your list) to the
beginning of Info-default-directory-list so we'll have a more complete
info directory. I'd been planning to look into the support for this
for a while, but hadn't gotten around to it.
Anyway, these changes will show up with the Athena 8.0 release goes
out, some time this summer. Thanks for the suggestions.
