Dribble in september 0.16?

Dribble in september 0.16?

[Andy Eskilsson]

Latelu I had to do a kill -HUP on my emacs, and to my great surprise I
didn't find any dribble autosave.. I am not sure if I read any news,
only mail, this could be a reason to why, but I lost some information
about mail I read (what 'articles' that were read or not), maybe the
mail-stuff should use dribble too?

	/andy

Re: Dribble in september 0.16?

[Steven L. Baur]

>>>>> "Flognat" == Flognat  <Andy> writes:

    Flognat> Latelu I had to do a kill -HUP on my emacs, and to my
    Flognat> great surprise I didn't find any dribble autosave.. I am
    Flognat> not sure if I read any news, only mail, this could be a
    Flognat> reason to why, but I lost some information about mail I
    Flognat> read (what 'articles' that were read or not), maybe the
    Flognat> mail-stuff should use dribble too?

It does use dribble, the problem is probably with auto-save.  There's
a newly introduced bug in sgnus that has the effect of disabling
auto-save on the dribble file on XEmacs, maybe it has the same effect
on your Emacs too.

The easiest way to tell whether you need this patch or not is to start
Gnus, select a group/article, and then look in your auto-save directory
for a long filename with dribble in it.

Clip and save, this one might be needed for awhile.

--- 1.4 1995/11/26 22:57:02
+++ gnus.el     1995/11/27 00:30:33
@@ -12944,7 +12944,7 @@
                         (file-name-nondirectory dribble-file))))
       (gnus-add-current-to-buffer-list)
       (erase-buffer)
-      (setq buffer-file-name dribble-file)
+      (set-visited-file-name dribble-file)
       (buffer-disable-undo (current-buffer))
       (bury-buffer (current-buffer))
       (set-buffer-modified-p nil)

Regards,
-- 
steve@miranova.com baur