Re: Separating marks from other group configuration

[Philipp Haselwarter <philipp.haselwarter@gmx.de>]

Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 13 2010, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> While making dinner here I was thinking about what Steinar said about
>> separating out the non-marks stuff (group parameters and...  stuff?)
>> from .newsrc.eld.  Which led me to thinking about where to store it.
>> Which led me to thinking about IMAP.
>
> As an IMAP-only user, I just want to say that the .newsrc.eld is a PITA
> to me.

+1
If at least it weren't that messy. But especially once gnus gets
confused with the number of mails in a group, things can get quite
obscure. Like, when I want to browse my inbox, which gnus claims to
contain about 3 times the messages it actually does, "/ o 100" often just
displays the last 15 messages.
Also, I have to subscribe to new groups on every site I use gnus, making
the whole configuration rather unportable.
Maybe it'd already help to refactor the .newsrc.eld? (I know you're not
supposed to edit that manually, but sometimes it just feels like you
need to get some control over things..)

In general, adding/editing groups in gnus instead of .gnus.el does
make it quite difficult to figure out what sate your config really is
in:
For example, on my notebook I added an rss feed in the group buffer, G m
and adding all the information. Now if I want the same feed elsewhere I
have to go through all that again. I'd really love to just get some
lisp snippets that I could directly dump into my .gnus.el.


-- 
Philipp Haselwarter