Re: New mail indicator

["Jody M. Klymak" <jklymak@apl.washington.edu>]

Roman,

Is it possible to modify the demon to update the modeline?  i.e. I
have the following running under the gnus-use-demon...

(defun gnus-demon-scan-mail-groups1 ()
  (save-window-excursion
    (when (gnus-alive-p)
      (save-excursion
        (set-buffer gnus-group-buffer)
        (gnus-group-get-new-news 1)))))

Is there a way to count how many messages are in the group-1 groups
and then change the modeline?  It would't update the modeline directly
after your ead your messages, but it would next time you ran the
demon.

Let us know what you come up with - this would be a fun thing to have,

Cheers,  Jody

    RB> BTW I altered my mode line to show the number of unread
    RB> messages (if there are any), but encountered the following
    RB> problem: is there a hook that is called *after* the article
    RB> was marked as read. I defined a function that changes the
    RB> modeline and call it after the new mail was obtained (via
    RB> gnus-after-getting-new-news-hook), but it also should be
    RB> called when articles are marked as read so what mode line will
    RB> always present correct number of unread articles; I tried some
    RB> hooks like gnus-mark-article-hook without success. Are there
    RB> any suitable hooks for this ?


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Jody Klymak                         APL/School of Oceanography,
Doctoral Candidate                  University of Washington
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