Bug or feature?

[Colin Baxter]

Suppose you do

1. emacs <RET>
2. M-x gnus <RET>

We will assume this works - it generally does if your ~/.emacs and
~/.gnus.el are good :-). But

1. emacs -q <RET>
2. M-x load-library <RET>
3. ~/.emacs <RET>
4. M-x gnus <RET>

will produce an error. You must do

i.  M-x load-library <RET>
ii. ~/.gnus.el <RET>

before step (4). We assume that the file ~/.emacs does not have the line
(load-library "~/.gnus.el").

Is this simply a feature of the "-q" option or a bug?

Best wishes,


Colin Baxter
URL: http://www.Colin-Baxter.com
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