Re: Crashing Emacs and unsaved nnfolders

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

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Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> 
> > When Emacs crashes 
> 
> Similar problem.  I use nnmail-expiry-target to send some things to
> nnfolder groups for archival.  Those files are appended to in memory
> and saved when gnus quits.  They are not saved when I hit "s" in
> *Group*.  (Problem 1.)
> 
> If Emacs should crash before I quit Gnus, Gnus uses the last-saved
> version of the file, and loses anything which had been modified in the
> autosave.  
> 
> Given Gnus' ability to handle other unsaved files (like newsrc) it
> would be nice if it would handle these, but it would also be nice if
> it would save them when I hit s.

You can try the attached patch (not in the CVS repository).  The
drawback is that Gnus has to save the entire nnfolder file for each
expired article.

ShengHuo


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Index: nnmail.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/gnus/lisp/nnmail.el,v
retrieving revision 6.10
diff -u -u -r6.10 nnmail.el
--- nnmail.el	2001/02/08 23:53:22	6.10
+++ nnmail.el	2001/03/07 18:25:21
@@ -1632,7 +1632,7 @@
     (when (nnheader-functionp target)
       (setq target (funcall target group)))
     (unless (eq target 'delete)
-      (gnus-request-accept-article target nil nil t))))
+      (gnus-request-accept-article target nil t t))))
 
 (defun nnmail-check-syntax ()
   "Check (and modify) the syntax of the message in the current buffer."