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From: Dan Christensen <jdc+news@uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: C-u G DEL doesn't delete everything
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:24:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87g035jufz.fsf@uwo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ilug035wjud.fsf@extundo.com> (Simon Josefsson's message of "Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:35:06 +0100")

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Dan Christensen <jdc+news@uwo.ca> writes:
>
>> In the *Group* buffer, when I hit `C-u G DEL' on a group, which is
>> supposed to delete a group and all of its contents, it doesn't
>> delete the group from my backups on CD.  Just kidding.  What 
>> it does miss are the .mrk and .nov files, and I think they
>> should go.
>
> Does this help?  

The patch didn't apply for some reason, but applying it manually
make Gnus work.  Thanks!

>> Also, the groupname~ backup file should probably be deleted as well.
>
> I'm not sure.  It is a backup file for a reason.  What do people think?

How about a variable to control this, with values t, nil and 'query?
With the default set to query or nil.

-- 
Dan Christensen
jdc+news@uwo.ca



      reply	other threads:[~2002-03-12 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-12  3:27 Dan Christensen
2002-03-12 21:35 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-03-12 22:24   ` Dan Christensen [this message]

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