From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/85730 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: check mtime of newsrc.eld before saving it Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 14:13:09 +1100 Message-ID: <8761bhvynu.fsf@building.gnus.org> References: <87twzdc86f.fsf@building.gnus.org> <8761bhzz0f.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423106057 32044 80.91.229.3 (5 Feb 2015 03:14:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 03:14:17 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M33968@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Feb 05 04:14:16 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YJCtT-0004Wj-1C for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 04:14:15 +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 1YJCtM-0006xt-FI; Wed, 04 Feb 2015 21:14:08 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1YJCtL-0006xa-0e for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 04 Feb 2015 21:14:07 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1YJCtJ-0004YL-5b for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 04 Feb 2015 21:14:06 -0600 Original-Received: from smtp.syd.comcen.com.au ([203.23.236.77]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YJCtH-0000u1-2O for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2015 04:14:03 +0100 Original-Received: from building.gnus.org ([27.96.197.126]) by smtp.syd.comcen.com.au (8.13.4/8.12.9) with ESMTP id t153DEhe000984 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 2015 14:13:14 +1100 (EST) In-Reply-To: <8761bhzz0f.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 04 Feb 2015 06:39:44 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-comcen-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-comcen-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-comcen-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=0.131, required 4, AWL 0.03, BAYES_50 0.00, RDNS_NONE 0.10) X-comcen-MailScanner-From: larsi@gnus.org X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:85730 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > LI> this should be a `y-or-n-p' instead, I think. That would make Gnus' > LI> behaviour here be pretty consistent with how Emacs otherwise behaves > LI> when writing data to files. > > ...a way to merge the on-disk newsrc.eld with the current one, because > currently aborting is the only way to avoid overwriting either side's > marks. Well, if you answer "yes" to "file change; write anyway?", Emacs will overwrite changes made elsewhere to files normally. So this would make Gnus be pretty consistent with how Emacs works elsewhere, wouldn't it? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/