From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79034 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pmlists@free.fr (Peter =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=BCnster?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Improving dribble data handling Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:08:54 +0200 Organization: Micropit Message-ID: <87aadspg95.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1307542218 9701 80.91.229.12 (8 Jun 2011 14:10:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 14:10:18 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27333@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Jun 08 16:10:14 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 1QUJSU-0001uh-NH for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:10:11 +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 1QUJRc-0004q6-CY; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:09:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QUJRb-0004pu-7j for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:09:15 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QUJRZ-000482-Dc for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:09:14 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QUJRW-0003LO-4t for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:09:10 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QUJRT-0001Lw-D8 for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:09:07 +0200 Original-Received: from arennes-651-1-277-51.w2-2.abo.wanadoo.fr ([2.2.244.51]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:09:07 +0200 Original-Received: from pmlists by arennes-651-1-277-51.w2-2.abo.wanadoo.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:09:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: arennes-651-1-277-51.w2-2.abo.wanadoo.fr User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7tL89a0wZmwFgcdVR9R/qqUojb0= X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79034 Archived-At: Hello, In the past, sometimes I killed the dribble buffer accidently, and afterwards, after a restart of emacs, the marks in the group were messed up. Now I use Gnus happily without dribble buffer: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (setq gnus-use-dribble-file nil gnus-read-newsrc-file nil gnus-save-newsrc-file nil) (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-group-save-newsrc 5 2) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- So, what are the advantages of a dribble file? (IMO: fewer files = less trouble ;) -- Peter