From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/86764 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Auto-slave gnusae? Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 07:57:29 -0800 Message-ID: References: <877fiiqt7n.fsf@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454861438 10924 80.91.229.3 (7 Feb 2016 16:10:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 16:10:38 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M34989@lists.math.uh.edu Sun Feb 07 17:10:25 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from lists1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.208]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aSRur-0003pb-8V for ding-account@gmane.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 17:10:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by lists1.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aSRti-0000xL-Th; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 10:09:14 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by lists1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aSRte-0000wt-Sz for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 10:09:11 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1aSRtd-0006t6-Q4 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 10:09:10 -0600 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1aSRtZ-0003uD-Gp for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 17:09:05 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aSRtQ-0001qV-7W for ding@gnus.org; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 17:08:56 +0100 Original-Received: from c-98-207-179-21.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([98.207.179.21]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 17:08:56 +0100 Original-Received: from dave by c-98-207-179-21.hsd1.ca.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Feb 2016 17:08:56 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-207-179-21.hsd1.ca.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qDTtdhdgMSaM+B3bGtM6KyGqBNs= X-Spam-Score: -3.1 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:86764 Archived-At: on Fri Feb 05 2016, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Dave Abrahams writes: > >> Just reading through the Gnus manual and noticed that we can get into >> trouble by starting two non-slave Gnusae at once: >> [[info:gnus#Slave%20Gnusae][info:gnus#Slave Gnusae]] >> >> So, shouldn't `M-x gnus' automatically dispatch to `gnus-slave' in that >> case? > > There are legitimate reasons to use two separate Gnus instances -- for > instance, if you want to "throw away" the reading results for some > reason or other. Sure, but that doesn't seem like a good default, does it? You could choose it explicitly. > Besides, I'm not sure we could reliably detect this situation. Look for a dribble file or something similar? -- -Dave