From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Auto-slave gnusae?
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2016 16:54:36 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fiiqt7n.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ziw3loa5.fsf@boostpro.com> (Dave Abrahams's message of "Sun, 17 Jan 2016 16:33:22 -0800")
Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
> Just reading through the Gnus manual and noticed that we can get into
> trouble by starting two non-slave Gnusae at once:
> [[info:gnus#Slave%20Gnusae][info:gnus#Slave Gnusae]]
>
> So, shouldn't `M-x gnus' automatically dispatch to `gnus-slave' in that
> case?
There are legitimate reasons to use two separate Gnus instances -- for
instance, if you want to "throw away" the reading results for some
reason or other.
Besides, I'm not sure we could reliably detect this situation.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-06 5:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-18 0:33 Dave Abrahams
2016-02-06 5:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-02-07 15:57 ` Dave Abrahams
2016-02-08 5:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-08 14:27 ` Dave Abrahams
2016-02-09 4:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-10 20:53 ` Dave Abrahams
2016-02-08 17:27 ` Andreas Schwab
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