From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/65848 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jidanni@jidanni.org Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: .newsrc.eld should have one newline per group Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:02:11 +0800 Message-ID: <873auktzlo.fsf_-_@jidanni.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196640235 7616 80.91.229.12 (3 Dec 2007 00:03:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 00:03:55 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M14343@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Dec 03 01:04:03 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iyyn3-0004WJ-1b for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:04:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IyylZ-00034s-Mx; Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:02:29 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IyylW-00034Z-TD for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:02:26 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IyylR-0007ae-Cx for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:02:26 -0600 Original-Received: from lax-green-bigip-5.dreamhost.com ([208.113.200.5] helo=looneymail-a2.g.dreamhost.com) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1IyylO-0006rn-00 for ; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:02:18 +0100 Original-Received: from jidanni1 (122-127-40-86.dynamic.hinet.net [122.127.40.86]) by looneymail-a2.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D86A16D3C8 for ; Sun, 2 Dec 2007 16:02:17 -0800 (PST) X-Spam-Score: 0.8 (/) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin (3.1.9 2007-02-13) analysis follows Bayesian score: 0.5104 Ham tokens: 0.007-3--8h-0s--0d--lisp, 0.009-2--6h-0s--0d--H*MI:fsf_, 0.009-2--6h-0s--0d--H*M:fsf_, 0.056-4682--23064h-2255s--0d--H*M:org, 0.074-10230--60297h-7904s--0d--H*r:Postfix Spam tokens: 0.978-1--0h-2s--0d--gentlemen, 0.962-4240--1171h-49106s--0d--HX-Spam-Relays-External:quimby.gnus.org, 0.962-4240--1171h-49106s--0d--H*RU:quimby.gnus.org, 0.958-1--0h-1s--0d--H*RU:sk:122-127, 0.958-1--0h-1s--0d--HX-Spam-Relays-External:sk:122-127 Autolearn status: no 1.0 NO_REAL_NAME From: does not include a real name 0.0 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 40 to 60% [score: 0.5104] -0.2 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:65848 Archived-At: Gentlemen, I propose instead of a paltry 13 newlines, $ wc .newsrc.eld 13 44047 859072 .newsrc.eld we instead maintain .newsrc.eld with one newline per newsgroup, yes lisp indented, but minimally. You see sometimes there is just no other way to do some operations but to edit .newsrc.eld, and in its present barf-blob form it squirms when one tries to edit it. Yes, one knows about .newsrc which is one newline per group, but that's not what I'm talking about today.