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why not just .newsrc? (was: Re: .newsrc-dribble autosave)
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Emanuel Berg |
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why not just .newsrc? (was: Re: .newsrc-dribble autosave) |
Date: |
Sun, 06 Jul 2014 22:14:34 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
One thing I don't understand is, if .newsrc-dribble is
used to track every little change, just to have in case
of a crash (which never happens), then why not do that
to .newsrc itself, keeping it up-to-date constantly?
(.newsrc or .newsrc.eld)
Is .newsrc so big it gets expansive parsing it?
In that case, a better solution I would think would be
to have "modular" .newsrc buffers - like one for each
group, or one for the gnus-newsrc-alist, one for
gnus-zombie-list, and so on.
I found some material here:
Whenever you do something that changes the Gnus
data (reading articles, catching up,
killing/subscribing groups), the change is added to
a special dribble buffer. This buffer is auto-saved
the normal Emacs way. If your Emacs should crash
before you have saved the `.newsrc' files, all
changes you have made can be recovered from this
file. [1]
[1] http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemnet/use/info/gnus/gnus_3.html
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- .newsrc-dribble autosave, akb427, 2014/07/05
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- Re: why not just .newsrc?, Emanuel Berg, 2014/07/06
- Re: why not just .newsrc?, Peter Münster, 2014/07/06
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- Re: why not just .newsrc?, Emanuel Berg, 2014/07/06
- Re: .newsrc-dribble autosave, Michael Heerdegen, 2014/07/06