* disabling autosave @ 2006-09-20 2:14 Randy Yates 2006-09-20 10:43 ` Tassilo Horn 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Randy Yates @ 2006-09-20 2:14 UTC (permalink / raw) Hi Folks, My #.newsrc-dribble# file is about 2MB and when gnus/xemacs autoaves, it takes several hundred milliseconds away from me. How do I turn off auto-saving this file? I've already (setq auto-save-default nil) in my init.el -- % Randy Yates % "Remember the good old 1980's, when %% Fuquay-Varina, NC % things were so uncomplicated?" %%% 919-577-9882 % 'Ticket To The Moon' %%%% <yates@ieee.org> % *Time*, Electric Light Orchestra http://home.earthlink.net/~yatescr ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: disabling autosave 2006-09-20 2:14 disabling autosave Randy Yates @ 2006-09-20 10:43 ` Tassilo Horn 2006-09-20 11:13 ` Reiner Steib 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Tassilo Horn @ 2006-09-20 10:43 UTC (permalink / raw) Randy Yates <yates@ieee.org> writes: Hi Randy, > My #.newsrc-dribble# file is about 2MB and when gnus/xemacs > autoaves, it takes several hundred milliseconds away from > me. How do I turn off auto-saving this file? ,----[ (info "(gnus)Auto Save") ] | If `gnus-use-dribble-file' is `nil', Gnus won't create and maintain | a dribble buffer. The default is `t'. `---- Bye, Tassilo -- [Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. -- Neal Stephenson, _In the Beginning was the Command Line_ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: disabling autosave 2006-09-20 10:43 ` Tassilo Horn @ 2006-09-20 11:13 ` Reiner Steib 2006-09-20 13:01 ` Randy Yates 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Reiner Steib @ 2006-09-20 11:13 UTC (permalink / raw) On Wed, Sep 20 2006, Tassilo Horn wrote: > Randy Yates <yates@ieee.org> writes: >> My #.newsrc-dribble# file is about 2MB and when gnus/xemacs >> autoaves, it takes several hundred milliseconds away from me. How >> do I turn off auto-saving this file? I've already (setq >> auto-save-default nil) in my init.el > > ,----[ (info "(gnus)Auto Save") ] > | If `gnus-use-dribble-file' is `nil', Gnus won't create and maintain > | a dribble buffer. The default is `t'. > `---- BTW, this is the first hit when doing `i auto-save' or `i dribble' within the Gnus manual. Is there anything we could improve in the documentation to make it even more easy to find? Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: disabling autosave 2006-09-20 11:13 ` Reiner Steib @ 2006-09-20 13:01 ` Randy Yates 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Randy Yates @ 2006-09-20 13:01 UTC (permalink / raw) Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes: > On Wed, Sep 20 2006, Tassilo Horn wrote: > >> Randy Yates <yates@ieee.org> writes: >>> My #.newsrc-dribble# file is about 2MB and when gnus/xemacs >>> autoaves, it takes several hundred milliseconds away from me. How >>> do I turn off auto-saving this file? I've already (setq >>> auto-save-default nil) in my init.el >> >> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Auto Save") ] >> | If `gnus-use-dribble-file' is `nil', Gnus won't create and maintain >> | a dribble buffer. The default is `t'. >> `---- > > BTW, this is the first hit when doing `i auto-save' or `i dribble' > within the Gnus manual. Is there anything we could improve in the > documentation to make it even more easy to find? Hi Reiner, The problem is that there is too much information. I see now that if I had HAPPENED to use the info page for gnus, I would have found my answer almost immediately. Instead, what I did was a. Perform an on-line search via C-h a "auto-save", which came up with a whole bunch of stuff that I tried to search through. b. Searched the xemacs manual for auto-saving. After spending about 10 fruitless minutes on this, I gave up and posted my question. Another part of the problem is that it is not always clear (as in this case) what functions are xemacs and what are gnus. This multiplies the required searches by a factor of two. To my discredit, I have never become comfortable with the info tool. Thus I tend not to use it. However, I did notice just now that it is in the gnus manual as well. Whatever the reasons or judgements, this is what happened, and why I posted here. -- % Randy Yates % "Bird, on the wing, %% Fuquay-Varina, NC % goes floating by %%% 919-577-9882 % but there's a teardrop in his eye..." %%%% <yates@ieee.org> % 'One Summer Dream', *Face The Music*, ELO http://home.earthlink.net/~yatescr ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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