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From: Mike Fabian <mike.fabian@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: .newsrc.eld backups (was: I am an idiot.)
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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>