From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Sebastien Vauban" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Status of Group buffer Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:42:43 +0200 Organization: Sebastien Vauban Message-ID: <80a9viu7ak.fsf@somewhere.org> References: <80r4oyci91.fsf@somewhere.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1350639919 4990 80.91.229.3 (19 Oct 2012 09:45:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 09:45:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Fri Oct 19 11:45:25 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TP98t-0002Wq-Ha for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 11:45:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45903 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TP98l-0003uX-E2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 05:45:15 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="368fa3c7dc5c1bbe516391bd65bd1ab2"; logging-data="8039"; mail-complaints-to="abuse-VVbKFVtnif8H+i2N2EyTrmui9UKz+5OX@public.gmane.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+brwWo6FTD2Tt8VdbV4NZP" User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2 (windows-nt) X-Archive: encrypt Cancel-Lock: sha1:n1Q6CH4RdhaUjpcPfdcKlJiXGoI= sha1:clFqVfnrhuvXqANhd5fIngqLnpg= X-Url: Under construction... Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:194997 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:87327 Archived-At: Hi Tassilo, Tassilo Horn wrote: > "Sebastien Vauban" writes: > > Hi Seb, > >> I'm wondering, for some time, why the Group buffer is like if it was a >> "Modified" buffer (see `**' in the modeline). Shouldn't it be >> read-only instead (`%') like Dired? > > The ** indicates that there are changes that haven't been saved to your > ~/.newsrc.eld yet. Hit `s' in *Group*, and the ** will go away. > > If you quit gnus uncleanly (e.g. simply kill *Group*) when there's the > ** mark, you'll be queried if gnus should read the auto-saved dribble > file at the next startup. That does make a lot of sense. Thanks for enlightening me! Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban