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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, bugs@gnus.org, Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Subject: Re: Multiple Gnus running at the same time
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 03:05:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jept0m9ceh.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv7jmu849c.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 03 Jan 2005 18:53:27 -0500")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Or Gnus should handle when more than one instance is running at the
>> same time.
>
> That's one way, but I'd probably be just as happy if Gnus followed the usual
> "file locking" discipline of Emacs (so it would warn even before saving, as
> soon as simultaneous changes are made).

Gnus nomally asks you at startup whether you want to load the auto-save
file of .newsrc-dribble when it exists.  When it doesn't exist, there are
no unsaved changes and nothing to be locked, I think.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-04  2:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-03 23:12 Multiple Gnus running at the same time Stefan Monnier
2005-01-03 23:19 ` Simon Josefsson
2005-01-03 23:53   ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-04  2:05     ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2005-01-04 14:20       ` Stefan

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