From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/29665 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sudish Joseph Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: I am an idiot. Date: 29 Mar 2000 15:12:50 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035166298 3986 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 02:11:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 02:11:38 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from lisa.math.uh.edu (lisa.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.49]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CAEDD051E for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 15:14:07 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by lisa.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAB09279; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:13:35 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:13:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mailhost.sclp.com (postfix@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA05405 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:12:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from ra.eng.mindspring.net (ra.eng.mindspring.net [207.69.192.184]) by mailhost.sclp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 06E25D051E for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 15:12:51 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (qmail 1478 invoked by uid 52477); 29 Mar 2000 20:12:50 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Alan Shutko's message of "29 Mar 2000 13:17:14 -0500" Original-Lines: 36 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) XEmacs/21.2 (Hera) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29665 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:29665 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