And another thing (not only related to GUIs):
When data and settings are spread over lots of directories, backup,
migration and synchronisation often are a pain.
It can be done:
Evolution has an own builtin backup feature which bundles the config and
all data including mail Evolution does not consider being remote
('~/Maildir' counts as not local, but is easy to backup, so I'm not
going postal for this) into a compressed Tar bundle.
Since some releases Weechat (TUI) now spreads its config and data over
some desktop FS standard dot-dirs, Midnight-Commander does that already
much longer. At least Weechat respects the old single dot-dir and does
not split it automagically on an update.
Even GNUS ... odd GNUS?
And w-t-h does GNUS place stuff outside of '.emacs.d'? For '~/Mail' and '~/News' it may make sense, but for its dot-files?
yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:
And another thing (not only related to GUIs):
When data and settings are spread over lots of directories, backup,
migration and synchronisation often are a pain.
It can be done:
Evolution has an own builtin backup feature which bundles the config and
all data including mail Evolution does not consider being remote
('~/Maildir' counts as not local, but is easy to backup, so I'm not
going postal for this) into a compressed Tar bundle.
Sypheed (a graphical mail client-and-new client), too, is easily
configured to store both config and data in the same directory.
Since some releases Weechat (TUI) now spreads its config and data over
some desktop FS standard dot-dirs, Midnight-Commander does that already
much longer. At least Weechat respects the old single dot-dir and does
not split it automagically on an update.
Sounds bad. What is "FS"?
Even GNUS ... odd GNUS?
And w-t-h does GNUS place stuff outside of '.emacs.d'? For '~/Mail' and
'~/News' it may make sense, but for its dot-files?
Tin with default settings shows a similar trend, with some of its
config /and/ data files tucked neatly under ~/.tin, and some
under ~ . This is partly fixable by setting a custom $TIN_HOMEDIR
variable to be used instead of ~ .
The list of subscribed news groups probably is in ~ because other
news readers use(d) it too.
~/.cancelsecret
Sypheed (a graphical mail client-and-new client), too, is easily
configured to store both config and data in the same directory.
ant@tilde.club writes:
yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:
And another thing (not only related to GUIs):
When data and settings are spread over lots of directories, backup,
migration and synchronisation often are a pain.
It can be done:
Evolution has an own builtin backup feature which bundles the config and >>> all data including mail Evolution does not consider being remote
('~/Maildir' counts as not local, but is easy to backup, so I'm not
going postal for this) into a compressed Tar bundle.
Sypheed (a graphical mail client-and-new client), too, is easily
configured to store both config and data in the same directory.
\o/ ___( ++! )
ant@tilde.club writes:
~/.cancelsecret
. o O ( Cryyyyyy!!! )
|
/ \
GNUS puts the cancel stuff in ... guess three times ... not '~/.gnus'
or an other of the GNUSish files or something in '~/.emacs.d' ... it
is in the custom variables hidden in '~/.emacs' and so I've lost some
of my early cancel keys over cleaning up my Emacs configuration.
yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> writes:
ant@tilde.club writes:
Sypheed (a graphical mail client-and-new client), too, is easily
configured to store both config and data in the same directory.
\o/ ___( ++! )
Hey. Do you guys use Sylpheed? I like it too, but on my Windows 10,
it seems not to respect my Windows keyboard configuration. I reported
the fact at
https://github.com/sylpheed-mail/sylpheed/issues/42
I wonder if you guys have any suggestion. Thank you! .
On 2024-09-25 Wed 17:10 GMT, ant@tilde.club <ant@tilde.club> wrote:
Sypheed (a graphical mail client-and-new client), too, is easily
configured to store both config and data in the same directory.
But... isn't that inconvenient when your config is kept in version
control? I guess you could keep your email there too, do people do
that?
yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:
ant@tilde.club writes:
~/.cancelsecret
. o O ( Cryyyyyy!!! )
<o>
|
/ \
GNUS puts the cancel stuff in ... guess three times ... not '~/.gnus'
or an other of the GNUSish files or something in '~/.emacs.d' ... it
is in the custom variables hidden in '~/.emacs' and so I've lost some
of my early cancel keys over cleaning up my Emacs configuration.
Outch and grouch. Do cancel messages make sense in modern Usenet with
fast propagation?
Anton Shepelev <ant@tilde.culb> wrote:
Outch and grouch. Do cancel messages make sense in modern Usenet with
fast propagation?
In some groups with threads that will be read still in months too it may
make sense, but sometimes replies come in faster than expected. In most cases I need a supersede instead of a cancel, but the same problem is
the same. So unless it is absolutely necessary to cancel or supersede,
I "update" my stuff by replying to my own posts now. This has its own drawbacks, e.g. others may reply to one of my posts first and then see
the update.
In place changes (supersede, wikis, ...) yield other problems. Version control systems to roll back everything are only marginally helpful in discussions, only few readers would look at the history of a VCS-ed
text.
There may not be a simple solution for this at all.
Patricia Ferreira <pferreira@example.com> wrote:
yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> writes:
ant@tilde.club writes:
Sypheed (a graphical mail client-and-new client), too, is easily
configured to store both config and data in the same directory.
\o/ ___( ++! )
Hey. Do you guys use Sylpheed? I like it too, but on my Windows 10,
it seems not to respect my Windows keyboard configuration. I reported
the fact at
https://github.com/sylpheed-mail/sylpheed/issues/42
I wonder if you guys have any suggestion. Thank you! .
Yes, I use Sylpheed and like it, with both ru and us keyboard layouts on Windows and Linux. Can you make sure they keyboard problem you describe
is specific to Sylpheed and is not objseved in other GTK2 applications,
or native X applications, such as Xterm? Chrome is not the best
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