Re: Restricting frequency of 'g'

[Bill O'Connor <billyoc@gmail.com>]

Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

> I've noticed a bad habit in myself (and I'm betting I'm not the only one)
> where I'll press g in a Gnus group buffer to check for new mail whenever I
> pass by the screen in which Gnus is running or whenever I'm waiting for
> something else, even for a moment.  And then I get sucked back into my
> mail, including often a lot of traffic that I don't need to see right
> then.
>
> Does anyone have a good recipe for having Gnus remember the last time I
> checked for new mail and to force me to jump through some hoop if it's
> been less than a configurable amount of time?  My guess is that it
> wouldn't be horribly difficult to do this in elisp by rebinding g, but
> it's a bit beyond my personal skill.
>
> -- 
> Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

I just let gnus do it for me every 20 minutes.  

(gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-demon-scan-and-update 20 nil)
(setq gnus-use-demon t)
(gnus-demon-init)