From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68398 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Save everything frequently Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:46:13 +0200 Message-ID: <87zlf0hnwq.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <871vsdsf8s.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238568459 10315 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2009 06:47:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 06:47:39 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16835@lists.math.uh.edu Wed Apr 01 08:48:56 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LouFn-00080Y-E8 for ding-account@gmane.org; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:48:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LouDR-0000mU-R1; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:46:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LouDO-0000mF-EZ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:46:22 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LouDI-0005kh-At for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:46:22 -0500 Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([141.26.64.15]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LouDg-0004Ra-00 for ; Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:46:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22C7E789B5AF for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 08:46:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from deliver.uni-koblenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (deliver.uni-koblenz.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 18263-03 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 08:46:13 +0200 (CEST) X-CHKRCPT: Envelopesender vrfy tassilo@member.fsf.org Original-Received: from thinkpad.tsdh.de (xsan2.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.64.131]) by deliver.uni-koblenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7C2D789B59E for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 08:46:13 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: never Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <871vsdsf8s.fsf@newsguy.com> (Harry Putnam's message of "Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:45:39 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at uni-koblenz.de X-Spam-Score: -5.5 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68398 Archived-At: Harry Putnam writes: Hi Harry, > I'm experimenting with ann Opensolaris install that is very unstable > at the moment. > > I'd like to make gnus save its state every few minutes or just on > demand. I know from experience that the `s' command in *groups* > doesn't do the same as `q' (closing gnus). > > So how can I get the effect of `q' without really closing gnus? Looking at the code it seems that the only difference between `s' and `q' is that `q' additionally runs `gnus-exit-gnus-hook', then offers to save any open summary buffers and runs `gnus-after-exiting-gnus-hook' finally. By default those hooks don't seem to write anything to files, but `gnus-offer-save-summaries' does scoring, saving score files and probably it saves other things (overviews), too. So I'd say that unless there are open summary buffers `q' and `s' are equivalent in terms of which files are saved. Bye, Tassilo