From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80352 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How to not check for new messages at start-up? Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:09:31 +0100 Message-ID: <87ipnmyb44.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <87fwircqc5.fsf@imladris.arda> <877h42u9oq.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318928011 29728 80.91.229.12 (18 Oct 2011 08:53:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:53:31 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28640@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Oct 18 10:53:28 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RG5QN-0007EL-Mo for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:53:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RG5PP-00050p-4n; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:52:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RG5PM-00050P-Ue for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:52:24 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RG5PK-0004Oj-KL for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:52:23 -0500 Original-Received: from vscani-b2.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.135]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RG5PI-0006HN-1c for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:52:20 +0200 Original-Received: from dip057.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk ([128.40.228.156] helo=localhost) by vscani-b.ucl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RG5PB-00055J-Lb for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:52:13 +0100 In-Reply-To: <877h42u9oq.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:53:57 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) X-Face: av6A"vZ{AypDB`d^.T35oG%$E*Qh]4F)K=*$-NHz5{7WZfAFQFB]F@gf}l9`XLs9(iD?D/! nafKE,S#G!4W/flj=9(U{]t'lP,,5~:s*~;kKR Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org X-UCL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the UCL Helpdesk, helpdesk@ucl.ac.uk for more information X-UCL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UCL-MailScanner-From: e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -5.4 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80352 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen 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=E2=80=A6 > > Eric or set gnus-activate-level to a very low number: ,----[ C-h v gnus-activate-level RET ] | gnus-activate-level is a variable defined in `gnus-start.el'. | Its value is 2 | Original value was 6 |=20 | Documentation: | *Groups higher than this level won't be activated on startup. | Setting this variable to something low might save lots of time when | you have many groups that you aren't interested in. |=20 | You can customize this variable. |=20 | [back] `---- --=20 : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.90.1 + No Gnus v0.= 18