From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/74739 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: elp-wrapper sneaking into .newsrc.eld Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:31:34 +0100 Organization: Probably a good idea 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 1291624334 1828 80.91.229.12 (6 Dec 2010 08:32:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 08:32:14 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M23095@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Dec 06 09:32:11 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 1PPWUU-0007fN-LP for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:32:10 +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 1PPWUB-0002BG-Lc; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 02:31:51 -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 1PPWUA-0002B5-BN for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 02:31:50 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PPWU8-0003fU-Io for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 02:31:50 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1PPWU7-0005gU-00 for ; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:31:47 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PPWU7-0007XM-Aj for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:31:47 +0100 Original-Received: from 62.113.137.5 ([62.113.137.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:31:47 +0100 Original-Received: from sb by 62.113.137.5 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:31:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.113.137.5 Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6A2N4rA5oyyT659j6rsuzL/Lipo= X-Spam-Score: -0.7 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:74739 Archived-At: >>>>> Dan Christensen : > Thanks, that fixed it. For the record, I quit Gnus, opened > .newsrc.eld in a random text editor, deleted that form, started emacs > and gnus, and all was well. In my opinion, the .newsrc.eld should be split up. 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) - 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 (I think there are other reasons as well, but these are the ones that came to mind right now)