From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/5850 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Galen Boyer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Killed my mail group and am not sure how to get it back. Date: 8 Oct 2005 08:49:02 -0500 Organization: Newscene Usenet News Service, http://www.newscene.com/ Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138671499 29105 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:38:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:38:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:35:55 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!news.nask.pl!newsfeed.pionier.net.pl!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!novia!novia!sequencer.newscene.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Sender: Galen@GALEN Original-Sender: galenboyer@rcn.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5992 Original-Lines: 36 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5992 Tue Jan 17 17:35:55 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:5850 Archived-At: On Fri, 07 Oct 2005, dmaze@mit.edu wrote: > Galen Boyer 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