Re: Why can't I set organization?

[bazad]

Emre Sevinc <emres@bilgi.edu.tr> writes:

> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
> ~/.gnus:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> (setq gnus-posting-styles '((".*" (organization "Istanbul Bilgi 
> University"))))
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> And what happens? It looks like my gnus system simply
> doesn't take it into account, because it simply
> doesn't print the organization header this way, and C-h v gnus-posting-styles
> seems to be nil, however if I copy and paste the above code 
> to the *scratch* buffer and run it (as you advised) it works! 
> 
> > Error in ~/.gnus: ***
> >
> > I suspect the `(gnus-compile)' line in your .gnus file.
> 
> As you see I've removed all the usual suspects. My recent
> ~/.gnus just includes a single line of correct Lisp code
> and nothing else so the problem must be that gnus simply
> don't care for my ~/.gnus. 
> 
> How can make make gnus read the conf file? (I've checked
> the file permissions: -rw-r--r--)
> 
> Another strange thing is that, up until now I thought gnus
> system was reading my ~/.signature file because I've specified
> the location and name of the file in my gnus-posting-styles,
> I deleted that part and it still knows where to find my signature
> file this persuades me %99 that it simply ignores ~/.gnus conf
> file. How can I solve this problem? Seems really weird to me...

I assume you are running Linux or BSD system.

I am not an expert, by my machine uses 

        ~/.gnus.el

file name instead of ~/.gnus.