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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Restricting frequency of 'g'
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:49:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200804090649.m396nesX018860@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804080355.m383tJe9029473@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:55:18 -0700")

Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu> writes:

  > Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
  > 
  >   > I've noticed a bad habit in myself (and I'm betting I'm not the only one)
  >   > where I'll press g in a Gnus group buffer to check for new mail whenever I
  >   > pass by the screen in which Gnus is running or whenever I'm waiting for
  >   > something else, even for a moment.  And then I get sucked back into my
  >   > mail, including often a lot of traffic that I don't need to see right
  >   > then.
  >   > 
  >   > Does anyone have a good recipe for having Gnus remember the last time I
  >   > checked for new mail and to force me to jump through some hoop if it's
  >   > been less than a configurable amount of time?  My guess is that it
  >   > wouldn't be horribly difficult to do this in elisp by rebinding g, but
  >   > it's a bit beyond my personal skill.
  > 
  > Someone posted a different solution for the same problem here (or
  > another gnus list): do not show new messages in groups is the number of
  > new message is under a certain threshold.  
  > 
  > I don't remember who it was, but maybe someone else does...

I found the article mentioned above:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60153

this looks like a nice feature to have in gnus...



  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-09  6:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-06  3:36 Russ Allbery
2008-04-06  4:54 ` Bill O'Connor
2008-04-06  6:43   ` Russ Allbery
2008-04-06 11:55 ` John SJ Anderson
2008-04-07  1:30   ` Russ Allbery
2008-04-07 23:45     ` jidanni
2008-04-08  0:54       ` John SJ Anderson
2008-04-08  3:41         ` Russ Allbery
2008-04-08 21:12           ` a Gnus biff (was: Restricting frequency of 'g') Ted Zlatanov
2008-04-09 13:59             ` a Gnus biff Wes Hardaker
2008-04-08  3:55 ` Restricting frequency of 'g' Dan Nicolaescu
2008-04-09  6:49   ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2008-04-09 19:22     ` Reiner Steib
2008-04-12 14:58       ` Mark Plaksin
2008-07-29 21:14       ` Dan Nicolaescu
2008-07-30 18:04         ` Reiner Steib
2009-07-30 19:32           ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-10-07  6:27       ` Dan Nicolaescu
2010-10-07 20:16         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-07 21:55           ` Russ Allbery
2010-10-08 17:28             ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-10-08 15:14           ` Jason L Tibbitts III
2010-10-09 15:36             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-10-09 15:50               ` Richard Riley

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