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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: How to not check for new messages at start-up?
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:17:27 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ty76zjrc.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5witymd.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>

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?

-- 
GNU Emacs 24.0.90.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.4)
 of 2011-10-06 on pelletnNo Gnus v0.18




  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-18 10:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87fwircqc5.fsf@imladris.arda>
     [not found] ` <877h42u9oq.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
2011-10-18  8:09   ` Eric S Fraga
2011-10-18  9:52     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-10-18 10:17       ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2011-10-18 16:53         ` Eric S Fraga
2011-10-19  0:58           ` Eric Abrahamsen

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