Re: I am an idiot.

[Sudish Joseph <sj@eng.mindspring.net>]

Alan Shutko writes:
> Quitting immediately is always the best bet.  When it looks like
> you've lost lots of groups because you hit C-g, you probably haven't
> lost them, just interrupted it while it was building the list, so you
> can safely save and quit.  I only use Q when I really think lots has
> gone wrong.

I use Q out of the *Group* buffer quite frequently, mostly when I hit
c by mistake when exiting a group.  Or for typos in multi-key
sequences, such as for scoring, where the wrong prefix key can land up
with a lot of groups getting messed up.  I then edit the dribble file
and remove the junk transformations on newsrc.eld.

This is what I would've done in Miguel's situation.  (Fwiw, there're
other cases where Gnus can get confused when C-g is hit at the wrong
moment during group article update.  Sometimes this can lead to groups
having totally bogus article counts.  I do a quick visual scan of the
group buffer after hitting C-g when Gnus is updating article counts.)

I've often thought it'd be cool to have an "undo" mode buffer, where
one could edit the dribble file in a user-friendly fashion.  However,
C-xC-f .newsrc-dribble combined with C-k works well enough for me at
the moment.

> (I also save all the time, so hitting Q wouldn't be so bad.)

I haven't used "q" in years now and instead bind "z" in the group
buffer to gnus-group-suspend.  I then have the suspend hook write out
.newsrc.eld:
(add-hook 'gnus-suspend-gnus-hook 'gnus-group-save-newsrc)

Works very well for me, since a suspended Gnus has faster startup for
scanning new news than M-x gnus.

-- 
Sudish Joseph