From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79267 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Date timer in Gnus article buffers Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:01:53 +0200 Message-ID: <87liwjls4e.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: <87wrg7z294.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1309417377 15595 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2011 07:02:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:02:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , ding@gnus.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27563@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jun 30 09:02:51 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 1QcBH0-0003tz-On for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:02:51 +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 1QcBGF-0007aa-4w; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:02:03 -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 1QcBGE-0007aP-1A for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:02:02 -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 1QcBG9-0008NL-Qj for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 02:02:01 -0500 Original-Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QcBG8-0000I6-97; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 09:01:56 +0200 Original-Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.45]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEAA3209D9; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:01:55 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:01:55 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=2dyjVOafgaQEq86k8vNYRyL/G4w=; b=tnj5AjpBmncK03b7+MYv7wYEimAO/vPcQLgsYjrWE+olrMbdJrJ8eUbGbajaGUCmRSNDWEh8bjq2gEAhsd8c3+hI0LMrqWGYHRcaD9mU9oKWbYPzv0rtd2zda6YamHSvU4WnMhSjG5Y24fnUYH2fT9D+2+5GBzEAU9fvjUzr8QM= X-Sasl-enc: /3k+guLVRRaYtLaZnJAHvHE9wYHFbMdByVgLxkhl0Sr2 1309417315 Original-Received: from thinkpad (eduroam-hg-dock-1-29.ethz.ch [129.132.15.29]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B8A3A441561; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:01:54 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:22:25 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79267 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: Hi! >> Does the Date: field in the article buffer really need to show the >> time elapsed down to the number of seconds? > > No. It's mainly that way to root out problems with buffer movement > when the contents change. If it updates once a minute, it makes > glitches appear totally incomprehensible, while when it happens every > second, it's clear what the culprit is. > > But I think we've now covered all the problems associated with > updating the buffer from a timer (there hasn't been a bug report in > this area for at least a month, I think), so it's probably time to > switch the default to not show the seconds. Oh, I still have the problem that killing from an article buffer frequently kills the wrong text (Date: until beginnig of my region, or beginnig of message till Date:). In that case, I have to yank twice to get my region. Bye, Tassilo -- Sent from my Emacs