From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67919 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus should backup .newsrc.eld Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:34:17 +0100 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: References: <87hc55s6a9.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229384091 30097 80.91.229.12 (15 Dec 2008 23:34:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:34:51 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16365@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Dec 16 00:35:55 2008 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 4.50) id 1LCMyh-00017P-3N for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:35:55 +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 1LCMxO-00039A-D7; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:34:34 -0600 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 1LCMxN-00038r-5u for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:34:33 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LCMxK-0007O3-BV for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:34:33 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LCMxX-0006Lq-00 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:34:43 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LCMxF-0006On-ET for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:34:25 +0000 Original-Received: from cm-84.208.204.180.getinternet.no ([84.208.204.180]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:34:25 +0000 Original-Received: from sb by cm-84.208.204.180.getinternet.no with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:34:25 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-84.208.204.180.getinternet.no Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YKHckq5aYyhvc67bIkN6BtgTj00= X-Spam-Score: -3.6 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67919 Archived-At: >>>>> jidanni@jidanni.org: > Oh, every body missed (info "(gnus)Startup Files") "If you want > version control for this file, set `gnus-backup-startup-file'." Well, > maybe it should be t by default. Didn't miss it exactly. I've never looked, because I'm not so much interested in having a backup version of this file (or any file). However, I _am_ interested in moving the mostly static information (group parameters, server and agent settings), residing in this file, into a separate file that isn't as large, and isn't saved as often.