From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Multiple Gnus running at the same time Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 03:05:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104804430 23925 80.91.229.6 (4 Jan 2005 02:07:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 02:07:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, bugs@gnus.org, Simon Josefsson Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 04 03:06:59 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Cle67-0000uD-00 for ; Tue, 04 Jan 2005 03:06:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CleHI-0001vD-HD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:18:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CleGu-0001nD-2e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:18:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CleGs-0001m0-0n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:18:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CleGq-0001l1-Qo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:18:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [195.135.220.2] (helo=Cantor.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1Cle4y-0004Ef-Tf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:05:49 -0500 Original-Received: from hermes.suse.de (hermes-ext.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E370B12CA77E; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 03:05:47 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Stefan Monnier X-Yow: Should I start with the time I SWITCHED personalities with a BEATNIK hair stylist or my failure to refer five TEENAGERS to a good OCULIST? In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 03 Jan 2005 18:53:27 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:31780 Stefan Monnier 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. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany Key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."