Re: .newsrc.eld should have one newline per group

[Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>]

James Cloos <cloos+math_uh-ding@jhcloos.com> writes:

>>>>>> "Jidanni" == <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:
>>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Olson <mwolson@member.fsf.org> writes:
>
> Jidanni> we instead maintain .newsrc.eld with one newline per newsgroup,
> Jidanni> yes lisp indented, but minimally.
>
> Michael> I fully agree.  I recently had to selectively restore items
> Michael> from a backed-up .newsrc.eld file, and Emacs took a long time
> Michael> to move around in that file.
>
> I'd like to see that as well, but it isn't the easiest change to make.
>
> The current code uses (symbol-value) to get the value of each variable
> when writing out the (setq) lines into the buffer which gets written out
> to the ~/.nesrc.eld file.
>
> Emacs-lisp-mode has a (lisp-fill-paragraph) function, but that is more
> about filling comment blocks correctly; new code will be required which
> calls (fill-paragraph) will useful values for paragraph-start, et al
> and then runs (indent-sexp).

[...]

> The other alternative is to loop through gnus-newsrc-alist one value at
> a time, storing it in a temp variable and calling (symbol-value) on each
> of those.  

Actually, another option exists, which is to use the `pp' function and
friends to generate the formatted output.  This already takes care of
the formatting, ships in core Emacs and XEmacs, and is reasonable
efficient.

Regards,
        Daniel
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