From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/80354 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How to not check for new messages at start-up? Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:17:27 +0800 Message-ID: <87ty76zjrc.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87fwircqc5.fsf@imladris.arda> <877h42u9oq.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87ipnmyb44.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87y5witymd.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1318933089 2307 80.91.229.12 (18 Oct 2011 10:18:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:18:09 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M28642@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Oct 18 12:18:02 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 1RG6kD-0006ev-O2 for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:18:02 +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 1RG6k3-0005YC-SV; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:17:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1RG6k1-0005Xt-Q6 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:17:49 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RG6k0-00006l-Iv for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 05:17:49 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RG6jz-0008Ku-7C for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:17:47 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RG6jz-0006YL-2u for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:17:47 +0200 Original-Received: from 125.33.5.219 ([125.33.5.219]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:17:47 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by 125.33.5.219 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:17:47 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 125.33.5.219 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WrIBzX/PytgkylADkVuJCpiANhQ= X-Spam-Score: -4.2 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:80354 Archived-At: On Tue, Oct 18 2011, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18 2011, Eric S Fraga wrote: > >> 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… >>> >>> 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