From: Galen Boyer <galenboyer@hotpop.com>
Subject: Re: Killed my mail group and am not sure how to get it back.
Date: 8 Oct 2005 08:49:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <umzlk7xzo.fsf@rcn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y687jcpibwt.fsf@biohazard-cafe.mit.edu>
On Fri, 07 Oct 2005, dmaze@mit.edu wrote:
> Galen Boyer <galenboyer@hotpop.com> writes:
>
>> Inadvertently C-k'd my main mail group, nnml:mail.misc.
>
> From the group buffer, I'd try 'j nnml:mail.misc u' (jump to
> nnml:mail.misc in the group buffer, then (un)subscribe to it).
Yep, that worked. All the marks are gone, but I got it back.
Thanks.
> Alternately, you could use ^ to go to the server buffer, press RET on
> your nnml: server, and subscribe to mail.misc from there.
>> I didn't know where it went, so I kill emacs with Ctrl-Alt-Del to try
>> and see if the previous version of groups would show up on next call
>> to GNUS. Its not there.
>
> !!! 'Q' will generally exit the current context without saving
> changes without doing anything so drastic as rebooting your machine.
I didn't reboot the machine, unless you are saying Emacs is the
machine. ;-)
>
> Many things you can also undo with normal Emacs C-_; I think changing
> group state (subscribe/unsubscribe/kill) should be quite undoable. (A
> couple of things, notably C-u G DEL to destroy an nnml group and all
> of its contents, are pretty permanent and immediate.)
I wish Gnus didn't allow simple things like C-k to happen on mail
groups. Thats the window to files sitting local. Be nice if it
prompted you before you did such action against mail groups.
--
Galen deForest Boyer
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-08 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-06 23:59 Galen Boyer
2005-10-07 15:28 ` David Z Maze
2005-10-08 13:49 ` Galen Boyer [this message]
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