From: Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Proposed code to cleanup gnus on Emacs exit
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:10:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aa9dli89.fsf@uwo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ipo1g3jv.fsf@pluto.luannocracy.com>
Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
> But then you get an alarming message and a prompt the next time you
> start up gnus. Why shouldn't it just be safe and smooth to quit emacs
> whenever?
If I'm in the middle of reading a message, get distracted, and then quit
emacs, gnus might mark the article as read and I'd never get to see it
again. Those prompts about unsaved summary buffers are helpful
reminders that you might want to finish what you were in the middle of.
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-07 1:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-23 17:12 John Wiegley
2011-09-10 22:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-11 0:42 ` John Wiegley
2011-09-11 1:09 ` Richard Riley
2011-09-29 8:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-29 21:55 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-06 21:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-06 22:26 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-06 22:33 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-06 23:54 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-07 3:00 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-07 19:48 ` Dan Christensen
2011-10-07 20:22 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-08 6:14 ` Steinar Bang
2011-10-07 20:48 ` Michael Cook
2011-10-07 23:19 ` Richard Riley
2011-10-07 1:10 ` Dan Christensen [this message]
2011-10-08 9:59 ` Reiner Steib
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