From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80207 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: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:22:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87fwjfn3z4.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8762k0k2gz.fsf@uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318020057 17068 80.91.229.12 (7 Oct 2011 20:40:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 20:40:57 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28501@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Oct 07 22:40:53 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 1RCHDw-0001JQ-Oh for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:40:53 +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 1RCHDM-0002tj-OU; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:40:16 -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 1RCHDK-0002tT-Tp for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:40:14 -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 1RCHDH-0006Tz-I8 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:40:12 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RCHDG-0001Xf-6m for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:40:10 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RCHDD-00013C-ES for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:40:07 +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 22:40:07 +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 22:40:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 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:uIEHz/NWPTL4GDT+suxYv8I7D34= X-Spam-Score: -5.4 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80207 Archived-At: on Fri Oct 07 2011, Dan Christensen wrote: > 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. This seems like optimizing the 1% case at the expense of the other 99. `M-x gnus-no-dribble RET'? -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com