Re: Dribble buffer breakage.

[Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> commit 5d7c18060995c206e8a708829fa30801885cb972
>> Author: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
>> Date:   Fri Jun 10 00:09:30 2011 +0000
>>
>>     Improve dribble data handling.
>>
>> This commit breaks '.newsrc-dribble' buffer handling when gnus group
>> contains 'posting-style' with embedded newline characters, because of
>> newly introduced feature of 'gnus-dribble-enter' to remove /lines/
>> matching 'regexp' argument.
>>
>> Either 'posting-style' must not be part of `gnus-newsrc-alist' elements,
>> or 'posting-style' must be excluded when saving group info into the
>> dribble buffer, or 'gnus-dribble-enter' must remove entire sexp matching
>> 'regexp', not lines.
>
> I guess it could also insert things into the dribble buffer with "\n"
> instead of real newlines?  They would read the same, but would make
> every dribble be on one single line...
>
> I think I'll make that change.  It should be pretty trivial.

I'd rather vote for excluding 'posting-style' from dribble buffer, as,
being customisable user setting, it is always saved elsewhere. It takes
space and gives problems in dribble buffer for no reason.

-- 
Sergey.