From: Benjamin Slade <slade@jnanam.net>
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: syncing groups/topics arrangement between machines?
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 09:46:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twn2bjxs.fsf@jnanam.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twn3lhzh.fsf@debian.uxu> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Sun, 27 Dec 2015 22:05:54 +0100")
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> It's kept in the variable `gnus-topic-alist', which
>> is saved to the file pointed to by
>> `gnus-startup-file', which on this machine points to
>> ~/.emacs.d/.newsrc. That's where gnus stores most of
>> its state, including subscribed groups and
>> message marks.
>>
>> I wouldn't recommend copying this file between
>> machines -- I tried that before, and it didn't work
>> out well.
>
> How so?
>
> If Gnus stores its state there and the state is
> identical the result should be identical. If it isn't,
> something is wrong.
>
> I'll try it right now and tell you how it went...
I'll be curious how this experiment goes. I didn't seem to have much
luck, but it may depend on not running Gnus while copying/syncing the
.newsrc/.newsrc.eld files.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-28 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-27 5:12 Benjamin Slade
2015-12-27 5:34 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-12-27 5:47 ` Benjamin Slade
2015-12-27 6:15 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-12-27 6:45 ` Benjamin Slade
2015-12-27 7:17 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-12-27 21:05 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-12-28 0:55 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-01-03 22:43 ` myglc2
2016-01-04 1:33 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-12-28 5:37 ` Benjamin Slade
2015-12-28 16:46 ` Benjamin Slade [this message]
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