Re: Your way to quickstart Gnus?

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

XeCycle <xecycle@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello, I want to know if you have a way to start Gnus quickly when using
> emacsclient.
>
> I bind a key (in my WM) to execute `emacsclient -c -e '(gnus)'`, however
> the *Group* buffer appeared read-only before I press a key --- for
> example when I started it and press "Enter", Emacs will beep,
> complaining this buffer read-only, then everything is fine.  Another
> problem is that the splash image won't be shown.
>
> Well, these are all minor problems, but I'll be glad if I can solve it.
> What's your way?

not tested, but I use to use this:

,----
| (defun rgr/mailto (to)
|   "Send an email to 'to' but prompting for a posting style if not configured. Starts Gnus if not already running."
|   (unless gnus-active-hashtb (gnus)) ;; Better way??
|   (let ((gnus-newsgroup-name
| 	 (if gnus-default-mailto-group gnus-default-mailto-group (completing-read "Use posting style of group: "
| 										  gnus-active-hashtb nil
| 										  (gnus-read-active-file-p)))))
|     (compose-mail to)))
`----


and a shell script

,----
| mailto=$(printf '%s\n' "$1" | sed -e 's/[\"]/\\&/g')
| elisp_expr=$(printf '(rgr/mailto "%s")' "$mailto")
| 
| emacsclient --alternate-editor="" -c -n \
|         --eval "$elisp_expr" \
|         --eval '(set-window-dedicated-p (selected-window) t)'
`----

maybe it will help you get started if it doesnt work.