Re: .newsrc-dribble autosave

2014-07-07 Thread Katsumi Yamaoka
On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 13:45:34 +0900, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote: On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 01:09:42 +0200, Michael Heerdegen wrote: [...] 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).

Re: .newsrc-dribble autosave

2014-07-07 Thread Michael Heerdegen
Katsumi Yamaoka yama...@jpl.org writes: Currently the change below has been installed in the Emacs trunk only. I'll install it in the Gnus Git master too when the server ups (it seems down now). Ok, thanks. Michael. ___ info-gnus-english mailing

Re: .newsrc-dribble autosave

2014-07-06 Thread Alan Smaill
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

why not just .newsrc? (was: Re: .newsrc-dribble autosave)

2014-07-06 Thread Emanuel Berg
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

Re: .newsrc-dribble autosave

2014-07-06 Thread Michael Heerdegen
Alan Smaill sma...@spaminf.ed.ac.uk writes: 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. That's

Re: .newsrc-dribble autosave

2014-07-06 Thread Katsumi Yamaoka
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

.newsrc-dribble autosave

2014-07-05 Thread akb427
I've recently switched from xemacs to gnu emacs. 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 Isn't the whole point of the dribble file that it should get autosaved frequently in case of a crash?

Re: .newsrc-dribble autosave

2014-07-05 Thread Michael Heerdegen
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. The variable