Re: why not just .newsrc?

[Peter Münster]

On Sun, Jul 06 2014, Emanuel Berg wrote:

> 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)

I have good experience with:

(setq
 gnus-use-dribble-file             nil
 gnus-read-newsrc-file             nil
 gnus-save-newsrc-file             nil
 gnus-startup-file                 (concat pm/emacs-dir "newsrc"))

(gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-group-save-newsrc   5     2)

-- 
           Peter