From: Mike Fabian <mike.fabian@gmx.de>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: .newsrc.eld backups (was: I am an idiot.)
Date: 16 Jun 2000 12:40:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3aeglkiya.fsf@nozomi.rhein-neckar.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Andreas Schwab's message of "13 Jun 2000 15:08:23 GMT"
Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
> Mike Fabian <mike.fabian@gmx.de> writes:
>
> |> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> writes:
> |>
> |> > Mike Fabian <mike.fabian@gmx.de> writes:
> |> >
> |> > > but no extra backups are created for .newsrc.eld:
> |> >
> |> > Probably because of the following line in gnus-save-newsrc-file:
> |> >
> |> > (setq version-control 'never)
> |>
> |> I see. Thank you.
> |>
> |> But why is this done? The .newsrc.eld seems to be a very important
> |> file, and it might be very nice to have some more backups of
> |> .newsrc.eld.
> |>
> |> Isn't it weird to explicitly prohibit extra backups of .newsrc.eld?
>
> Well, you can easily undo it by setting it in the
> gnus-save-quick-newsrc-hook.
Thank you, that's nice. I missed that.
Mike
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Mike Fabian <mike.fabian@gmx.de>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-06-16 10:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-29 10:24 I am an idiot Miguel de Icaza
2000-03-29 15:49 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-03-29 17:49 ` D. Michael McFarland
2000-03-29 18:17 ` Alan Shutko
2000-03-29 20:12 ` Sudish Joseph
2000-03-29 20:43 ` Colin Rafferty
2000-03-30 5:42 ` Sudish Joseph
2000-03-30 6:20 ` Arcady Genkin
2000-03-30 6:59 ` .newsrc.eld backups (was: I am an idiot.) Mike Fabian
2000-03-30 18:39 ` Florian Weimer
2000-03-30 22:42 ` Mike Fabian
2000-06-13 15:08 ` Andreas Schwab
2000-06-16 10:40 ` Mike Fabian [this message]
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