From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: How to not check for new messages at start-up?
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:58:26 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739epztjh.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ehyai6mj.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>
On Wed, Oct 19 2011, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 18 2011, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 18 2011, Eric S Fraga wrote:
>>>
>>>> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Oct 18 2011, Teemu Likonen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> When Gnus is started it automatically checks for new messages. Can I
>>>>>> prevent that? Sometimes I don't want this automatic "g" command but just
>>>>>> a quick M-g on a specific group.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you use `gnus-unplugged' instead of `gnus', that should do what you
>>>>> want. You might have to be using the agent, and it doesn't always
>>>>> behave exactly as you'd expect, but that's the basic idea…
>>>>>
>>>>> Eric
>>>>
>>>> or set gnus-activate-level to a very low number:
>>>
>>> Ooh that's nice.
>>
>> No, it's not! If I set this to a level higher than some of my nntp
>> servers, they don't show up at all! Is it possible to get them back into
>> the server list afterwards?
>
> I'm not sure what gnus-activate-level has to do with servers? It is
> about groups. All of my nntp groups have a level greater than 2 and yet
> they appear in my server list (I have gnus-activate-level set to 2).
>
> If you are talking about the groups, you can view all groups, whether
> activated or not, using L (gnus-group-list-all-groups) in the *Group*
> buffer. Alternatively, you can activate groups at any level with "C-u N
> g" (replace N with desired level, e.g. 5).
Yes, sorry, that was a bit confusing. All my nntp groups are at level 5,
and if I start with gnus-activate-level at 4, the nntp server itself
doesn't show up in the server buffer. Running `5 g' brings everything
back to life, though. Thanks!
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GNU Emacs 24.0.90.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.4)
of 2011-10-06 on pelletnNo Gnus v0.18
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2011-10-18 8:09 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-10-18 9:52 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-10-18 10:17 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-10-18 16:53 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-10-19 0:58 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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