From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67448 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Patch to message.el to allow saving multiple message buffers when Gnus not running Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:58:27 +0200 Message-ID: <87ljxgnowc.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> References: <86od2ppaqs.fsf@lifelogs.com> <871vzavita.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> <86iqsk9y1c.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222362024 9304 80.91.229.12 (25 Sep 2008 17:00:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:00:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Francis Litterio Original-X-From: ding-owner+M15898@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Sep 25 19:01:12 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 4.50) id 1KiuCw-00007T-8y for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:00:50 +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 1KiuAr-00020u-UH; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:58:41 -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 1KiuAq-00020g-Fa for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:58:40 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KiuAm-0001d5-VA for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:58:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1KiuAq-0005dt-00 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:58:40 +0200 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.41.37]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m8PGwVim010211; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:58:31 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF57013356; Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:58:30 +0200 (CEST) X-Face: /U7=m^"/-Dn61mAl{g9e3>\G5Tp,oEX|V)g2I1hBk\ML;)7A?6cmB-y7y?'NA^J<=oz7syB =(McAwIHgLX!.B?R3X}98d@?>CrT094KLWh]WU4gDpnL/")MS(XoQTv`Oq225uL>+;CpPXo$N5e>N> $tPd-gbB^F{gQS#1ase]XO~D4p4M"3+F-7~u]dy3I?Pb8RO*H-EFeWDUf?Rf,d]pv\Jvh2Cht!A=im yKAS2Z%Ao^;}W/qzMvMm Mail-Followup-To: Francis Litterio , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <86iqsk9y1c.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:04:47 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-DCC-Rhyolite-Metrics: poseidon 104; Body=2 Fuz1=2 Fuz2=2 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67448 Archived-At: On Thu, Sep 25 2008, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 Reiner Steib wrote: > RS> On Mon, Sep 15 2008, Ted Zlatanov wrote: >>> On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 Francis Litterio wrote: > FL> This is at odds with how the same function saves multiple drafts of > FL> outgoing messages in the drafts folder when Gnus has been started. The > FL> below patch fixes this by changing message-set-auto-save-file to append > FL> a unique timestamp to the name of the disk file for the message > FL> composition buffer. > > RS> I'm not sure about the purpose of the current implementation. How is > RS> the user supposed to recover the file(s) (without and with your > RS> patch)? > > I think it simply provides a fallback in case of an emergency. I don't > really know what a user-side function to recover from those files would > do. Open the files in message-mode? All of them? Then what? I never use message mode without Gnus (except for testing) so I'd like to gather some information from users (like Francis maybe?) who do this regularly. [Moving this to the this thread:] On Thu, Sep 25 2008, Ted Zlatanov wrote: > RS> You also checked in an unrelated change: Francis Litterio's patch. > I was testing with it for a while and missed it. I added a ChangeLog > entry but I can't disassociate the old commit. The other possibility would be to revert this part of the commit. > I hope it's OK as it stands now. Okay. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/