From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/5187 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-15?Q?S=E9bastien?= Kirche Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: how to remove groups entirely from .newsrc.eld file? Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 16:49:41 +0200 Organization: Aucune. Message-ID: References: <877jh5yoix.fsf@nospam.com> Reply-To: =?iso-8859-15?Q?S=E9bastien?= Kirche NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670969 26423 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:29:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:29:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:34:55 2006 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.25.216.129 Original-X-Trace: yeuse.cuq.org 1118242381 42330 195.25.216.129 (8 Jun 2005 14:53:01 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@cuq.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 14:53:01 +0000 (UTC) X-Face: ;T}O6aj2o*d:|9po%NCuYvExN3]<#cHr0"FaWCh[}WVn6&@L)YWO'&6AO5Ex:MX=H;.^e}o Td*OaFQEBc_xu%+ChwRl!KK`I'["$^aO1gIN{4OyBdO@1HHD5YO#[kiVCk|/-|mmYnU8yTp+eOv."d 1.G3;ro0Q/`,UY+vY/#5b/{OYxE+X\)tc~p~1vbmZ!o4sciW+e8MW|Pz|nl`l*}]8[#1zQO"]d2*{d wrTKu]5t*Gy_pm3e8o=:(c_ju'zlQ<[oJ|\XjgQQmWZC7S]-Fmp\eBHnBO']/te~/;\@l" D#:h)8Q Cancel-Lock: sha1:iHoacFoSXZWN5t9FMMjcv6ztOe0= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!newsfeed.pionier.net.pl!news-fra1.dfn.de!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!nerim.net!feed.ac-versailles.fr!news.cuq.org!not-for-mail Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5329 Original-Lines: 49 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5329 Tue Jan 17 17:34:55 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:5187 Archived-At: At 15:06 on Jun 8 2005, Gernot Hassenpflug said : > Hello Sébastien, many thanks for your helpful reply. I did edit the > .newsrc.eld file for the gnus-server-alist definition. Solved the > problem. Good. :) If another gnus power user is reading and knows another mean that hand editing the .newsrc.eld, I still would like to know... > OK, now that that is clarified, I feel much better. I remember the > days of .newsrc files that were simple multi-column lists of newsgroup > names and article numbers. Things have gotten more complex! There is still a .newsrc with such data. But i always seen it together with .newsrc.eld (I am a rather new gnus user : around 2 years...). > > > Is there a recommended method for keeping mail safely organized > > > (easy to overview in the .gnus.el file, for example, not so > > > easy if you don't know where on disk(s) your groups were > > > located if you have to try and look for them again), and can I > > > move stuff that is created with G D into my .gnus.el file? > > Sébastien> Maybe you can do like me for some settings : looking in > Sébastien> the .newsrc.eld for the parameters that gnus set and > Sébastien> copying them to the .gnus to keep them in case of > Sébastien> future reuse. I used to see that those settings are > Sébastien> ignored from the .gnus if they are also present in the I should rather say : «those settings seem ignored if» as it is what I noticed while experimenting, but it is only my opinion, not a strong affirmation... > Sébastien> .newsrc.eld (so you have to remove them from > Sébastien> .newsrc.eld before they are taken into account if you > Sébastien> modify the .gnus definition). > > OK, that sounds good to me. I'll give that a try. I've gained new > respect for the .newsrc.eld file, and back it up regularly too, in > case of accidental clearing. Yep. Loosing groups subscriptions is not that terrible, but by loosing or corrupting the .newsrc.eld you can also loose the marked articles or the groups parameters that is much more annoying (already tested :/) -- Sébastien Kirche