From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Improving dribble data handling
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:40:19 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4m39jjok8s.fsf@jpl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87aadspg95.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh>
Peter Münster wrote:
> Hello,
> In the past, sometimes I killed the dribble buffer accidently, and
> afterwards, after a restart of emacs, the marks in the group were messed
> up.
> Now I use Gnus happily without dribble buffer:
> (setq gnus-use-dribble-file nil
> gnus-read-newsrc-file nil
> gnus-save-newsrc-file nil)
> (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-group-save-newsrc 5 2)
Oh, you saves it very frequently. That's good (I sometimes type
`s' when I exit a summary buffer instead, though). But I wouldn't
like to make it be Gnus' default, because sometimes I don't want
to save it. For instance, if I catch-up all articles in a group
accidentally, I launch another Emacs and Gnus before saving the
newsrc.
> So, what are the advantages of a dribble file?
Bzr Emacs sometimes crashes suddenly. In such a case the dribble
file is helpful.
> (IMO: fewer files = less trouble ;)
Agreed. But the idea of the dribble file is not so bad, I think.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-09 1:40 UTC|newest]
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2011-06-08 10:17 Katsumi Yamaoka
2011-06-08 14:08 ` Peter Münster
2011-06-09 1:40 ` Katsumi Yamaoka [this message]
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