From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79445 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Where are group parameters stored? Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:21:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8762ncnb5a.fsf@member.fsf.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310491397 26582 80.91.229.12 (12 Jul 2011 17:23:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:23:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org To: Tassilo Horn Original-X-From: ding-owner+M27741@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jul 12 19:23:11 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 1Qggfu-0004kH-NZ for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:23:11 +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 1Qggea-0002bP-1Y; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:21:48 -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 1QggeY-0002bD-C4 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:21:46 -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 1QggeR-0003Lh-6I for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:21:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-qy0-f172.google.com ([209.85.216.172]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QggeP-00089w-Ei for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:21:37 +0200 Original-Received: by qyk9 with SMTP id 9so2316155qyk.17 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:21:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.224.126.77 with SMTP id b13mr229338qas.6.1310491291630; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:21:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from pluto.local (207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com [207.172.223.249]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t21sm11222228qcs.2.2011.07.12.10.21.29 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:21:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by pluto.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id 33DC66FCD1E; Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:21:29 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <8762ncnb5a.fsf@member.fsf.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:40:33 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:79445 Archived-At: on Fri Jul 08 2011, Tassilo Horn wrote: > Dave Abrahams writes: > > Hi Dave, > >> I can't figure out where Gnus is putting them. > > Well, you can specify them in your ~/.gnus.el using `gnus-parameters', > and then they are exactly there. ;-) > > If you specify them using `G c' or `G p' on a group, then I think they > go in ~/.newsrc.eld, but I might be wrong. Okay, that seems problematic. Shouldn't everything you specify with `G c' or `G p' be stored as a regular customization? IIUC, .newsrc.eld changes very dynamically (e.g. storing article marks), whereas group parameters are the sort of thing I'd probably want to check into a Git repository somewhere. Am I missing something? -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com