From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: How to prevent gnus from always downloading full index
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:05:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4blxx58.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bn8hei9j.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Tue, 19 Jan 2016 14:49:44 +0000")
Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> On Tuesday, 19 Jan 2016 at 12:32, Adam Sjøgren wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> gnus-keep-backlog 'nil
>> gnus-keep-backlog '0
>>
>> I have it set to 20. I think 'nil and '0 are weird values to use - nil
>> or 0 would make more sense, but keeping the default 20 maybe even more :-)
>
> I wonder whether quoting a 0 means all emails are stored for
> re-retrieval, i.e. equivalent to a non-nil non-number entry as the
> documentation mentions. Not a good idea, if so.
Both values are evaluated, but since nil and 0 are self-evaluating the
quote is redundant.
Andreas.
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2016-01-19 14:49 ` Eric S Fraga
2016-01-19 15:21 ` Adam Sjøgren
2016-01-19 17:03 ` Eric S Fraga
2016-01-19 18:05 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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