Re: .newsrc-dribble autosave

[Alan Smaill]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> akb427 <google@mirror.to> writes:
>
>> In gnus, I am now sometimes getting the message "Buffer
>> .newsrc-dribble has shrunk a lot; auto save disabled in that buffer
>> until next real save"
>
> I don't know if this behavior is intended, but it doesn't seem very
> useful to me.

Presumably the idea is that if you have inadvertently deleted a big
chunk of the buffer, you should be warned before any previous backup
gets overwritten.

> The variable `auto-save-include-big-deletions` controls whether
> auto-save-mode is turned off when the buffer has shrunk a lot - the
> default is nil (meaning: turn off).
>
> Gnus would have to set the buffer local value of this var to non-nil to
> fix this.
>
>
> Michael.
>
>

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Alan Smaill