From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80190 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Proposed code to cleanup gnus on Emacs exit Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:26:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87fwjfn3z4.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1317940215 22143 80.91.229.12 (6 Oct 2011 22:30:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 22:30:15 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28484@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Oct 07 00:30:10 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 1RBwSA-0007lk-9B for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:30:10 +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 1RBwS8-00055e-89; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:30:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RBwS6-00055L-TJ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:30:07 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RBwS5-0002R4-TE for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:30:06 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RBwS4-00012a-H9 for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:30:04 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBwS4-0007kl-Fc for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:30:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com ([207.172.223.249]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:30:04 +0200 Original-Received: from dave by 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:30:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:flacyMmH9u4k3jXDoufpEfyjvD8= X-Spam-Score: -5.4 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80190 Archived-At: on Thu Oct 06 2011, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Ted Zlatanov writes: > >> How about making it optional and off by default, toggled on by a >> boolean? It seems useful. > > I don't really see the need. The dribble file is saved, and that should > be sufficient. But then you get an alarming message and a prompt the next time you start up gnus. Why shouldn't it just be safe and smooth to quit emacs whenever? -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com