Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerde...@web.de> writes: > akb427 <goo...@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. > > -- Alan Smaill _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
