Need gnus-group-load-hook?

Need gnus-group-load-hook?

[Norman Walsh]

Hello world,

I download mail from my ISP, where it's spooled, to my own machine through
a mechanism that I hacked together.  Don't ask.

Anyway, I wanted "g" in the group buffer to run my own elisp function to
"do the right thing".  Redefining the key in my .gnus.el file doesn't work
because the definition goes away when gnus finishes loading.  It also
goes away when I redefine it in gnus-load-hook.

So I finally arrived at the following:

;; Maybe there ought to be a gnus-group-load-hook?
(add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook (lambda nil
			    (define-key gnus-group-mode-map "g" 
			      'get-new-mail-and-news)))

Is there a better way to do this?  (And would that way be gnus-group-load-hook
a l\'a gnus-sum-load-hook? ;-)

--norm

P.S. I'm running gnus.5.4.45 under GNU Emacs 19.34.

Re: Need gnus-group-load-hook?

[Per Abrahamsen]

Norman Walsh <norm@berkshire.net> writes:

> Is there a better way to do this?

You can use `eval-after-load'.  It is not better, but perhaps a little
more intuitive.

Re: Need gnus-group-load-hook?

[David Moore]

Norman Walsh <norm@berkshire.net> writes:

> ;; Maybe there ought to be a gnus-group-load-hook?
> (add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook (lambda nil
> 			    (define-key gnus-group-mode-map "g" 
> 			      'get-new-mail-and-news)))

Why not just stick (require 'gnus-group) before this line in your .gnus?

Re: Need gnus-group-load-hook?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Norman Walsh <norm@berkshire.net> writes:

> So I finally arrived at the following:
> 
> ;; Maybe there ought to be a gnus-group-load-hook?
> (add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook (lambda nil
> 			    (define-key gnus-group-mode-map "g" 
> 			      'get-new-mail-and-news)))
> 
> Is there a better way to do this? 

No, that's the canonical way to alter mode-specific keymaps.  Only you
should use `local-set-key' instead of `define-key'.

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