Re: would it hurt to put more newlines in .newsrc.eld?

Re: would it hurt to put more newlines in .newsrc.eld?

[Reiner Steib]

On Mon, Aug 11 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote:

> Would it hurt to put more newlines in .newsrc.eld?

Try to convince the people on ding that adding newlines makes
sense. :-)

> Lines too long might break some editors :-|
> Also I want to look at it.

I'd agree with you that it's terrible to edit without newline.  But
it's not supposed to be read or edited by humans.

Here's a workaround:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
;;;###autoload
(defun rs-gnus-save-newsrc-with-whitespace ()
  "Save ~/.newsrc.eld with extra whitespace."
  ;; Modified version of <oq1ykgajdm.fsf@carouge.sram.qc.ca>
  (gnus-message 5 "Adding whitespace to .newsrc.eld")
  (save-excursion
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (while (re-search-forward "(\\\"\\| ((\\| (nn" nil t)
      (replace-match "\n  \\&" t))
    (goto-char (point-min))))

(add-hook 'gnus-save-quick-newsrc-hook 'rs-gnus-save-newsrc-with-whitespace)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

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Re: would it hurt to put more newlines in .newsrc.eld?

[Dan Jacobson]

R> Here's a workaround:

I'm scared to tamper with the file. I'll use fold -s if I want to look
at it.  but I wish they would trade some SPC for newlines. BTW,
$ noffle -g|grep [^a-z]ding
doesn't reveal what the "ding" list is.