Re: How to not check for new messages at start-up?

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

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).

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: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.90.1 + No Gnus v0.18