From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
Subject: Re: can't delete nnml groups
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 20:39:56 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b9yzn0ecvzn.fsf@jpl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b9y6532g2am.fsf@jpl.org>
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>>>>> In <b9y6532g2am.fsf@jpl.org> Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
> I noticed I cannot delete nnml groups if there are persistent
> articles.
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Removing old name:
> is a directory" "/home/yamaoka/News/cache/nnml:foo.bar.baz")
> delete-file("/home/yamaoka/News/cache/nnml:foo.bar.baz")
> gnus-delete-file("/home/yamaoka/News/cache/nnml:foo.bar.baz")
> gnus-cache-delete-group("nnml:foo.bar.baz")
> gnus-request-delete-group("nnml:foo.bar.baz" (4))
> gnus-group-delete-group("nnml:foo.bar.baz" (4))
> call-interactively(gnus-group-delete-group)
> There seems to be the same problem in `gnus-agent-delete-group'.
> Although making articles persistent in nnml groups might be
> nonsense, it will be useful for back ends which don't make local
> article files.
> Emacs 21 provides the `dired-delete-file' function which deletes
> a file and also a directory recursively. Can't we use the copy
> of it as `gnus-delete-file'?
Here it is:
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2004-12-16 6:55 Katsumi Yamaoka
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