Re: Your way to quickstart Gnus?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

On Tue, Aug 16 2011, Tassilo Horn wrote:

> XeCycle <xecycle@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi!
>
>> 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.
>
> Executing
>
>   emacsclient -c -e '(gnus)'

I do something like this from within Emacs, but didn't want to fetch new
news when all I wanted was to go to the group buffer. I use this; I
don't know if it's totally according to Hoyle, but it seems pretty
foolproof.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(defun my-goto-gnus ()
  "Go to the gnus group buffer, starting gnus if necessary."
  (interactive)
  (if (or (not (fboundp 'gnus-alive-p))
	  (not (gnus-alive-p)))
      (gnus)
    (switch-to-buffer gnus-group-buffer t)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---