From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80211 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Proposed code to cleanup gnus on Emacs exit Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:19:13 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87fwjfn3z4.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8762k0k2gz.fsf@uwo.ca> Reply-To: ding@gnus.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318029617 9022 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2011 23:20:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 23:20:17 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28505@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Oct 08 01:20:13 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 1RCJi5-00020V-I9 for ding-account@gmane.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:20:09 +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 1RCJhv-0003eg-6F; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:19:59 -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 1RCJhR-0003e8-HZ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:19:29 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RCJhQ-000726-7n for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:19:29 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RCJhN-0005LX-E2 for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:19:25 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RCJhN-0001j7-BO for ding@gnus.org; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:19:25 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:19:25 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrg by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 01:19:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hF4AwJmmfbx0t7/CPAL+d+1JdYM= X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80211 Archived-At: Dan Christensen writes: > Dave Abrahams writes: > >> Can't we at least read the dribble file unconditionally? > > Please, no. If I accidentally catch up a group or something else gets > messed up, then what I do is exit emacs *without* saving the .newsrc.eld > and then start Gnus without reading the dribble file. You are proposing > removing both of those options, which would get rid of that safety net. So the poor solution remains because of the chance of one person making the wrong decision and issuing a legitimate command which then gnus acts correctly on? Better would be if you want to be able to undo stuff then use git or something on your .eld file.