bug#33005: 27.0.50; Data loss with Gnus registry

[Eric Abrahamsen]

On 12/04/19 22:51 PM, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> The only integration that's lacking is auto save (which doesn't work
>> well with eieio-persistent). If you quit Gnus without saving, your
>> intermediate state goes into the dribble file, and you can choose to
>> load that again later. But the registry doesn't work with the dribble
>> file (it would be a medium amount of work to make that happen) so you'd
>> lose any edits to the registry made since the last save.
>
> Another difference is that when you quit the summary with -Q, registry
> marks are saved anyway.  But I like that :-)

Yes, the registry actions are immediate, while most of the other summary
operations are "apply on exit". I don't think that matters, though --
the "apply on exit" actions are only related to manipulating marks,
which the registry doesn't care about. The immediate actions -- delete,
move, expire, spool, etc -- the registry already watches.

You made me nervous with this comment, but I'm going to assume
everything works the way it's supposed to :)