Re: XNAY (was: gnus hanging - how to see what it is doing)

2014-08-31 Thread Emanuel Berg
Peter Münster writes: >> I think I set that header so my articles would not >> be preserved in google groups for all eternity. > > Sure, XNAY prevents *your* articles from being > archived. But anybody (except for Adam Sjøgren ;) can > quote your text (or parts of your text taken out of > context

XNAY (was: gnus hanging - how to see what it is doing)

2014-08-31 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, Aug 31 2014, David Hume wrote: > I think I set that header so my articles would not be preserved in > google groups for all eternity. Sure, XNAY prevents *your* articles from being archived. But anybody (except for Adam Sjøgren ;) can quote your text (or parts of your text taken out of co

Re: gnus hanging - how to see what it is doing

2014-08-31 Thread Emanuel Berg
David Hume writes: > OK maybe I am silly. I can't remember for certain, > but I think I set that header so my articles would > not be preserved in google groups for all eternity. GG wont last for all eternity, but even if it it did, what does it matter? -- underground experts united __

Re: gnus hanging - how to see what it is doing

2014-08-31 Thread Adam Sjøgren
Emanuel Berg writes: > Yeah, but are you sure this was set by the OP? He might > be using some software that has that by default. I don't know of any software that does - but of course, anything is possible. X-No-Archive is a quite well-established convention. > Yeah - why shouldn't it be arch

Re: gnus hanging - how to see what it is doing

2014-08-31 Thread Emanuel Berg
a...@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes: > Because I want to respect the wishes of the people I > respond to. Yeah, but are you sure this was set by the OP? He might be using some software that has that by default. > Also, I think setting X-No-Archive is kind of silly, > if not asocial. This fun

Re: gnus hanging - how to see what it is doing

2014-08-31 Thread Adam Sjøgren
Emanuel Berg writes: >>> [Quoted text removed due to X-No-Archive] > What does this mean? It means that the article I was (not) quoting from had the X-No-Archive header set, which indicates that the author doesn't want his words archived - quoting them would go against that wish, so Gnus has fu

Re: gnus hanging - how to see what it is doing

2014-08-31 Thread Emanuel Berg
On-topic: Even though you can use C-g in this an other cases, it is likely you got yourself into either an infinite loop or some computationally intense operation and/or some operation applied to some huge material (hence the seemingly infinite delay). The first case (the infinite loop) is a bug an

Re: gnus hanging - how to see what it is doing

2014-08-30 Thread Adam Sjøgren
David Hume writes: > [Quoted text removed due to X-No-Archive] Ah, I didn't know that one. Thanks! Adam -- "FUTURE DIRECTIONS Adam Sjøgren None." a...@koldfront.dk __

Re: gnus hanging - how to see what it is doing

2014-08-30 Thread Adam Sjøgren
David Hume writes: > Aha! c-g actually stopped it hanging! I didn't know I could do that. OK next > time... Cool! C-g is the generic "ok, stop trying" thing in Emacs: ,[ C-h k C-g ] | C-g runs the command keyboard-quit, which is an interactive compiled | Lisp function in `simple.el'. | | I

Re: gnus hanging - how to see what it is doing

2014-08-30 Thread David Hume
On 2014-08-30, Adam Sjøgren wrote: > David Hume writes: > >> Gnus is hanging again, showing a rotating wheel. How can I see what it is >> doing? Is there a way to attach to the process and cause it to do backtrace, >> before I kill it off? > > Maybe M-x toggle-debug-on-quit and then hit C-g when

Re: gnus hanging - how to see what it is doing

2014-08-30 Thread Adam Sjøgren
David Hume writes: > Gnus is hanging again, showing a rotating wheel. How can I see what it is > doing? Is there a way to attach to the process and cause it to do backtrace, > before I kill it off? Maybe M-x toggle-debug-on-quit and then hit C-g when the wheel is spinning? Best regards,

gnus hanging - how to see what it is doing

2014-08-30 Thread David Hume
Gnus is hanging again, showing a rotating wheel. How can I see what it is doing? Is there a way to attach to the process and cause it to do backtrace, before I kill it off? ___ info-gnus-english mailing list info-gnus-english@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org