Re: New mail indicator

["François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>]

Roman Belenov <roman@nstl.nnov.ru> écrit:

> Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> > This tells you whether you have mail in /var/mail/jrl.  It does not
> > tell you about the number of unread messages in Gnus.

> So it's not related to my question (I don't have /var/... at all under
> Windows NT).  Is there a way to indicate that there are unread messages
> in Gnus ?

Hi, people.  I'm not sure if this addresses your question, but there is
a mechanism in Gnus to force the display of `%' in the Group buffer next
to all groups which received messages and which you did not visit yet.

Building on this, I customized the Topics mode to force the display of
normally hidden groups, as long as they have that `%' mark.  I also added
the `%' command, both in the Group buffer and in the Summary buffer, that
automatically selects and visits the next group which has such a `%' mark
(and also gets new mail before doing so, if any arrived in the meantime).

These things make Gnus, as a mail reader, significantly more useful for
me, especially I also managed to sort most summaries with more recent
articles first.  I have many groups, many of which are hidden, and mail
gets split a bit everywhere when received.  I like to (at least try to)
browse all incoming mail once, not too long after its receipt.

P.S. - I thought I posted all this code here (but maybe a while ago...).
Or maybe I sent it to Lars only?  It might be.  In any case, Lars told me
that he wants to revisit, rethink and refresh this area of Gnus.

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard