From: Michael Olson <mwolson@member.fsf.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: .newsrc.eld should have one newline per group
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:26:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k5ntsodd.fsf@grepfind.mwolson.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873auktzlo.fsf_-_@jidanni.org> (jidanni@jidanni.org's message of "Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:02:11 +0800")
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jidanni@jidanni.org writes:
> Gentlemen, I propose instead of a paltry 13 newlines,
> $ wc .newsrc.eld
> 13 44047 859072 .newsrc.eld
> we instead maintain .newsrc.eld with one newline per newsgroup, yes
> lisp indented, but minimally.
I fully agree. I recently had to selectively restore items from a
backed-up .newsrc.eld file, and Emacs took a long time to move around in
that file.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-05 5:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-30 0:58 how to delete groups despite backend jidanni
2007-11-30 1:22 ` Dave Goldberg
2007-11-30 1:32 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-12-03 0:02 ` .newsrc.eld should have one newline per group jidanni
2007-12-03 23:55 ` jidanni
2007-12-04 1:27 ` jidanni
2007-12-05 5:26 ` Michael Olson [this message]
2007-12-05 23:18 ` James Cloos
2007-12-06 7:35 ` Reiner Steib
2007-12-07 1:00 ` reader
2007-12-06 8:35 ` Daniel Pittman
2007-12-06 12:43 ` jidanni
2007-12-03 0:11 ` how to delete groups despite backend jidanni
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