Re: Modification to newsrc saving, please check!

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Sun, 18 May 2003, kai.grossjohann@gmx.net wrote:
> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> 
>> It would be nice if the gnus-save-newsrc-file function was more
>> modular, so I could save the registry cache through it instead of
>> essentially copying it into gnus-registry-cache-save.  The idea of
>> saving variables to a file in a way that would let us just (load)
>> that file is very convenient.  We should facilitate it as much as
>> possible for other areas of Gnus.
> 
> Sounds like a plan.  So how about making it more modular?  Obvious
> parameters that I see is the way that the contents of the
> buffer/file are generated, and also filename and coding and
> suchlike.

I'll think about it, maybe an association table of symbols with file
names and nil means the regular place.

Specifically for the registry, however, I may have to change the
format yet again.  Saving the whole registry with every update is
pretty inefficient.  I'm thinking of your format for the nnmail cache,
with the extra data stored as a Lisp expression at the end of the
line.  Something like:

Message-ID group1 group2 group3 '((creation-time 10000000))

It's much faster to use this, but of course more work is needed to
work around the limitations of the format.  Argh.  If only Emacs had a
built-in file database.

Ted