From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86714 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Auto-slave gnusae? Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2016 16:54:36 +1100 Message-ID: <877fiiqt7n.fsf@gnus.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454738138 25441 80.91.229.3 (6 Feb 2016 05:55:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2016 05:55:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Dave Abrahams Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34940@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Feb 06 06:55:27 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aRvqB-0006o0-7r for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2016 06:55:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aRvq7-0002TB-AQ; Fri, 05 Feb 2016 23:55:23 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aRvq5-0002Si-Ho for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 05 Feb 2016 23:55:21 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aRvq4-0002pX-Fa for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 05 Feb 2016 23:55:21 -0600 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aRvpm-0001vz-Uo for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 06 Feb 2016 06:55:09 +0100 Original-Received: from cpe-60-225-211-161.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([60.225.211.161] helo=mouse) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1aRvpQ-00071q-NU; Sat, 06 Feb 2016 06:54:41 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Dave Abrahams's message of "Sun, 17 Jan 2016 16:33:22 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-MailScanner-ID: 1aRvpQ-00071q-NU MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1455342882.06587@D4sK/M9ixC4hOCoduf8YRw X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86714 Archived-At: Dave Abrahams 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