From: Michael Cook <michael@waxrat.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Proposed code to cleanup gnus on Emacs exit
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:48:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wrcgwmt9.fsf@waxrat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8762k0k2gz.fsf@uwo.ca> (Dan Christensen's message of "Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:48:12 -0400")
Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:
> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>
>> Can't we at least read the dribble file unconditionally?
>
> Please, no. If I accidentally catch up a group or something else gets
> messed up, then what I do is exit emacs *without* saving the .newsrc.eld
> and then start Gnus without reading the dribble file. You are proposing
> removing both of those options, which would get rid of that safety net.
Your safety net could be to remove the dribble file before
restarting gnus. After all, you knew something had gone wrong
before you decided to exit without saving.
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-07 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-23 17:12 John Wiegley
2011-09-10 22:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-11 0:42 ` John Wiegley
2011-09-11 1:09 ` Richard Riley
2011-09-29 8:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-29 21:55 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-06 21:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-06 22:26 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-06 22:33 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-10-06 23:54 ` John Wiegley
2011-10-07 3:00 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-07 19:48 ` Dan Christensen
2011-10-07 20:22 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-10-08 6:14 ` Steinar Bang
2011-10-07 20:48 ` Michael Cook [this message]
2011-10-07 23:19 ` Richard Riley
2011-10-07 1:10 ` Dan Christensen
2011-10-08 9:59 ` Reiner Steib
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