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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: No Gnus todo item
Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 13:14:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4nn0hxbbtw.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ruoof2djtor.fsf@billw2lx.wolfram.com> (Bill White's message of "Thu, 08 May 2003 11:21:08 -0500")

On Thu, 08 May 2003, billw@wolfram.com wrote:
> On Thu May 08 2003 at 06:07, Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> said:
> 
>> Pressing M-x gnus RET should load gnus, load .newsrc.eld etc, and
>> display the group buffer.  This shouldn't take longer than 5s.
>> This is in line with the GUI design criteria "minimize time the
>> user can't access the user interface".
>>
>> Fetching new mail, and updating the article counts should be done
>> after pressing 'g'.
> 
> That's an excellent idea!  Occasionally, I get into a situation
> where I need to load without downloading because I've screwed
> something up, so I have to edit mail-sources temporarily to keep new
> mail out of the mess.

But that's confusing to new users, every MUA I have used will load new
mail at startup.  May I suggest either a variable like
gnus-startup-without-scan or a function gnus-fast?  The function seems
the better solution.  You startup gnus with emacs -f gnus-fast and
then `g' is still bound to the gnus function so things work like they
always have.

In fact, it seems like the gnus function already has a dont-connect
parameter.  Is that not useful?

Thanks
Ted



  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-08 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-08 11:07 Simon Josefsson
2003-05-08 12:03 ` Reiner Steib
2003-05-08 13:26   ` Simon Josefsson
2003-05-08 16:24     ` Bill White
2003-05-09  7:08     ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-13 18:02   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-05-08 16:21 ` Bill White
2003-05-08 17:14   ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2003-05-08 17:29     ` Simon Josefsson
2003-05-08 18:56       ` Ted Zlatanov
2003-05-08 22:48         ` Simon Josefsson
2003-05-09 16:32           ` Ted Zlatanov

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