Re: .newsrc.eld

[Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@nice.ch>]

Andy Eskilsson <flognat@fukt.hk-r.se> writes:

>   2. Having one group per line would increase the size of the file
>      enormously I believe..

the size of a file does not change when you seperate two groups by a
newline instead of a space, only the number of lines will increase...
Of course, the spaces could just be removed completely to reduce the
file size.

> But of the records, what I do when I edit my .newsrc.eld file is
> replace all ')'s with ')[newline]', warning though, remember that some
> paranthesis might be inside strings, so when you are finished replace
> )[newline] with ) (arrgh hate macs)

maybe if the spaces were removed, you could replace )( by )[newline](,
this might be more reliable...

    christian