On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 01:09:42 +0200, Michael Heerdegen wrote: > 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. This is probably due to the change that I've made in 2011-06-10, though I've never seen such a warning. The original message I posted to the ding list is missing in Gmane, but Google says: ,---- | Development list for Gnus, the Emacs newsreader - Gmane | <http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/79033> | 2011/06/08 - Hi, You may see the dribble buffer and the dribble | file get pretty big if you use Gnus all day long without saving | .newsrc.eld. I tried improving Gnus' dribble data handling so as | to prevent the dribble buffer from growing infinitely ... `---- Before this change, Gnus adds newsrc data for a group to the dribble file whenever you read article(s) in the group, but the useful data is only the newest one. So, I changed the code so as to delete the old one when entering a new one to the dribble buffer. I guess why Emacs issues the warning message in question is that a newsrc entry for a certain group is very big. Otherwise, that I often save the .newsrc.eld file using the `s' command in the Group buffer might be the reason why I've never seen the warning. Anyway deleting old dribble data is harmless, I believe. > 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. I'll do it. Thanks. _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english