From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80197 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Christensen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Proposed code to cleanup gnus on Emacs exit Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:10:14 -0400 Message-ID: <87aa9dli89.fsf@uwo.ca> References: <87fwjfn3z4.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317950118 12594 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2011 01:15:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 01:15:18 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28491@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Oct 07 03:15:15 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBz1u-0004o1-Ji for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:15:14 +0200 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 1RBz1q-0005z0-8c; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:15:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RBz1p-0005yn-7M for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:15:09 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RBz1o-0002Um-B9 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:15:09 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RBz1m-0005Bk-VQ for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:15:06 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBz1m-0004ms-OW for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:15:06 +0200 Original-Received: from cpe0023bee5dd21-cm0023bee5dd1e.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([99.249.62.111]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:15:06 +0200 Original-Received: from jdc by cpe0023bee5dd21-cm0023bee5dd1e.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:15:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpe0023bee5dd21-cm0023bee5dd1e.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:v3q5bTJlILC8ZQEKlhlYJUfH414= X-Spam-Score: -5.4 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80197 Archived-At: Dave Abrahams 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