From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/17865 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: syncing groups/topics arrangement between machines? Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 22:05:54 +0100 Message-ID: <87twn3lhzh.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87mvswh3tw.fsf@jnanam.net> <87fuyotpy6.fsf@debian.uxu> <87io3kh28t.fsf@jnanam.net> <87r3i8mn8a.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451250385 11085 80.91.229.3 (27 Dec 2015 21:06:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 21:06:25 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 27 22:06:10 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aDIW2-00082m-5W for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 22:06:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42737 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDIW1-0001DU-9C for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 16:06:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36866) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDIVy-0001DD-Eu for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 16:06:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDIVv-0001YO-96 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 16:06:06 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:48125) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aDIVv-0001YI-1w for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 16:06:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aDIVs-0007sk-Fw for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 22:06:00 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-244.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 22:06:00 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-244.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2015 22:06:00 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-244.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9/ipC29FEqCSkNIDR5yWKuTAnvs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:17865 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen 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... > There is a possibility that in the future, Gnus' > various state objects will be separated out a little > more cleanly. It would be nice to at least have > a separation between "settings than can be synced or > kept in version control" (which would include group > subscriptions and topic arrangements), and "settings > that only Gnus should mess with", which I guess > would mostly be marks. Yeah, but isn't that separation exactly what is with .gnus and .newsrc[.eld]? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573