From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/43855 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Christensen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: C-u G DEL doesn't delete everything Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:24:32 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87g035jufz.fsf@uwo.ca> References: <87ofhua2k4.fsf@uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1015972195 590 80.91.224.249 (12 Mar 2002 22:29:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:29:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16kumI-00009P-00 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 23:29:55 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16kukB-00054m-00; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:27:43 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:27:47 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA07963 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:27:32 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 4024 invoked by alias); 12 Mar 2002 22:27:19 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 4019 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2002 22:27:19 -0000 Original-Received: from pony.its.uwo.ca (129.100.2.63) by gnus.org with SMTP; 12 Mar 2002 22:27:19 -0000 Original-Received: from femail.its.uwo.ca (hurdle.its.uwo.ca [129.100.2.108]) by pony.its.uwo.ca (8.12.1/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g2CMPk3B015174 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:27:17 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from localhost (ren.math.uwo.ca [129.100.75.76]) by femail.its.uwo.ca (8.12.1/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g2CMOW31004736 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:24:32 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from jdc by localhost with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16kuh6-0003Ve-00; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:24:32 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody In-Reply-To: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:35:06 +0100") Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.1 (i386-debian-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43855 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:43855 Simon Josefsson writes: > Dan Christensen 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