From: jidanni@jidanni.org
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: how to delete groups despite backend
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:11:11 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y7ccskm8.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4m1wa8a57i.fsf@jpl.org>
KY> I use `C-k', which only removes a group entry from the newsrc
KY> database.
But is still is hiding in .newsrc.eld.
There is no other way to exorcise it from .newsrc.eld other than
editing it by hand.
P.S. maybe DISCARD (gnus-group-kill-group &optional N DISCARD)
would work, but who knows, as it is undocumented!
KY> The reason that the nndoc back end does not offer the
KY> group deletion feature is that files it uses are considered to
KY> be not for only the back end.
Gee, the local files were long gone anyway (/tmp). Too bad it can't
tell.
Anyway, gnus is thus not environmentally sound: can create groups but
not remove them.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-03 0:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-30 0:58 jidanni
2007-11-30 1:22 ` Dave Goldberg
2007-11-30 1:32 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2007-12-03 0:02 ` .newsrc.eld should have one newline per group jidanni
2007-12-03 23:55 ` jidanni
2007-12-04 1:27 ` jidanni
2007-12-05 5:26 ` Michael Olson
2007-12-05 23:18 ` James Cloos
2007-12-06 7:35 ` Reiner Steib
2007-12-07 1:00 ` reader
2007-12-06 8:35 ` Daniel Pittman
2007-12-06 12:43 ` jidanni
2007-12-03 0:11 ` jidanni [this message]
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