From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/74752 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: elp-wrapper sneaking into .newsrc.eld Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:31:50 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: References: <874oarhp3v.fsf@uwo.ca> <87mxojx4ky.fsf@uwo.ca> <87tyir2404.fsf@uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291642349 29633 80.91.229.12 (6 Dec 2010 13:32:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 13:32:29 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23108@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Dec 06 14:32:24 2010 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 1PPbAy-00013g-VP for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:32:21 +0100 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 1PPbAp-0003rG-74; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:32:11 -0600 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 1PPbAo-0003r2-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:32:10 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PPbAj-0005x6-KQ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:32:09 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1PPbAi-0001DE-00 for ; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:32:04 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PPbAh-0000vX-UN for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:32:03 +0100 Original-Received: from cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no ([84.215.34.171]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:32:03 +0100 Original-Received: from larsi by cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:32:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.215.34.171.getinternet.no Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAFVBMVEUFAQEYBQa0RS79yVMC AAFjGRrvfz1jlcMMAAACWElEQVQ4jVWUS27rMAxFqcCeW+5jx40Caf4i1GMX8AIiBfQCZET7X0Iv ZSdtifzAI/Lyo5gMGWtFLD5YRkn6O1m21N9I2LKcLcNpma1N3vYKjJ73GdB6w1nE51tvqJeeE5HY M/dyJnZqngG4ZyFKgzDlD5NdrSAC0KeeyaShl2E8j67UGpz3idjcTpyYUUNaOYcaQIoTsmTMYAaC mdUiUbPiyQx2d8OyDT9ARNJNEr7EOD7AVAsxGr6lRvjRN7DFOFX6ZePHuEfEGF+gg3YYAMoeUg/v 3C3UfxI3gNdW21laumWh+wdbCaV6yeh+T7QgxFTM0I46EaQqe3qcp9P/k2cnkC9oM9AyKwO4e4cN +LUiF1I+wTLf47Vb2ORY3dX6rYEOuea3+Pj35WyO0UVZK1xIQ6Bv8dx9ZbuibRdq1CyLlkXv8Yx1 SkDbE8r6DR50cnq4mQKtt5vH+KmgDUQBAqCP9ylehxPGMdXfALl2ULephUxNY25DB+h15CqN6f4B JhxTP8AydwrKQKGETTWm1qBaN7/HcqOMcptEUYARouT3eL3RCNA2W3RHbViImBL12iFiqn/1gYgJ M/HZaZMHWHQhDRjfQmqRA8y0A6i3W+oPoDqsGofIC2iLpwYM/LigkmkPaA0qoIyaJpfWZ4MqflUw AhRvL08wP4GBhB94ewKi9QAsMnCYflLtwMiYrM3b9QXmiwIrafSW1+j+gMEIJ0TIZZIfcI+PwbhB Hxs5PsZXVQB+6B2ysWwT7i51M9yo6jIBhAJ/iI+8kTn+a2ab8HQID5aMgFq+AUel1wVDi7/2AAAA AElFTkSuQmCC Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Monsoon's _Monsoon (Featuring Sheila Chandra)_: "Shakti (The Meaning of Within)" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:k504/MwljUYyQ0f3ntkHVYcHZ88= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:74752 Archived-At: Steinar Bang writes: > Lars always asks "why?" when I suggest this. The answers are: > - It's a big file that's fragile wrt. to small obscure changes (it's > better to lose tick marks in one group, than in all of them) If you have a hierarchy of data, it's as easy to mess up the hierarchy as to mess up a file, really. Unless you know what you're doing. > - I would like to have my manually edited stuff (group parameters, and > servers, and perhaps other stuff) out of .newsrc.eld and into a file, > or set of files, that can be version controlled and shared together > with the rest of the configuration files in my home directory Yes, that would be nice, but I don't really see that as essential. I mean, no other mail reader separates out per-group conf stuff like that. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen