From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79040 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Katsumi Yamaoka Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Improving dribble data handling Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 10:40:19 +0900 Organization: Emacsen advocacy group Message-ID: References: <87aadspg95.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1307583696 27337 80.91.229.12 (9 Jun 2011 01:41:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 01:41:36 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27339@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jun 09 03:41:32 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QUUFY-00041q-7r for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 03:41:32 +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 1QUUEi-0007lE-BR; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:40:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1QUUEh-0007l3-6h for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:40:39 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QUUEf-0006jC-R0 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:40:38 -0500 Original-Received: from orlando.hostforweb.net ([216.246.45.90]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QUUEe-0004FI-3i for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 03:40:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53013) by orlando.hostforweb.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QUUEX-0003kk-Ak for ding@gnus.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:40:29 -0500 X-Face: #kKnN,xUnmKia.'[pp`;Omh}odZK)?7wQSl"4o04=EixTF+V[""w~iNbM9ZL+.b*_CxUmFk B#Fu[*?MZZH@IkN:!"\w%I_zt>[$nm7nQosZ<3eu;B:$Q_:p!',P.c0-_Cy[dz4oIpw0ESA^D*1Lw= L&i*6&( User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WjM80Cpdhb5UeUTix5EFifCDHrE= X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - orlando.hostforweb.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnus.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - jpl.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79040 Archived-At: Peter M=FCnster 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 =3D less trouble ;) Agreed. But the idea of the dribble file is not so bad, I think.