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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: accidentally started gnus
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:48:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ab1u2m2e.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877hx0n8do.fsf@jidanni.org>

On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:02:11 +0800 jidanni@jidanni.org wrote: 

j> Don't just say
j>   Please answer y or n.  Unable to open server nntp+news, go offline? (y or n)
j> Also add "q".

j> I mean the user accidentally started gnus, and now wishes to get out
j> gracefully, without ^G.

How about:

You don't seem to have Gnus configured, or the server nntp+news could
not be opened.  Would you like to (q)uit or go (o)ffline or (r)ead the
Gnus manual? (qor)

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:37:04 +0800 jidanni@jidanni.org wrote: 

j> Also, today I just accidentally started a _second_ gnus in a second
j> emacs... luckily I got out of that alive without damaging .newsrc.eld,
j> but perhaps the message should mention 'Holmes, you might have a gnus
j> already running..." too.

I don't think that's easy to achieve, and I can't even guess what a good
solution might be.  My window manager (StumpWM) lets me go to a window
or start it if it's not there; I thus have a `C-t g' binding to run a
Emacs Gnus window named "gnus" or go to the running one.  A generic
solution would be a lot harder.

Ted




  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-20 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-18 21:02 jidanni
2009-08-20 21:48 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2009-08-21 11:22   ` jidanni
2009-08-21 19:01     ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-08-21 19:23       ` Adam Sjøgren
2009-08-21 19:44         ` Ted Zlatanov
     [not found] <op.uywjaz0jq40fbn@balu.cs.uni-paderborn.de>
2009-08-19 16:37 ` jidanni
2009-08-25 12:46   ` Dan Christensen
2009-08-29 23:10     ` Tim Landscheidt
2009-08-30  5:17       ` Graham Murray

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