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...
next prev parent 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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