Re: Reading news with Emacs
Johann Spies wrote:
> After a few weeks trying out Linux I decided to downloaded Emacs and sofar I am impressed with Emacs.
>
> I have not succeeded in getting Emacs Gnus to read news, however. I did put export NNTPSERVER=news.ilink.nis.za in my .bashrc file but it did not have any effect on gnus' behavior
>
> I get the following error message:
> Johann (My computer name) open error:''. Continue?
As written in the bash manual: .bashrc is only loaded by non-login shells,
put the following at the top of your .bash_profile to get it read in login
shells as well:
test -r $HOME/.bashrc && source $HOME/.bashrc
That change was introduced in version 1.12 or 1.13.
Dominik Kubla
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