From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/16581 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Gnus state, feed commands Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:57:48 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <8761rq4m3u.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <87ob5k1a9q.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87ppq0yuza.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384732801 26289 80.91.229.3 (18 Nov 2013 00:00:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:00:01 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 18 01:00:08 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ViCG7-0002zx-SU for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2013 01:00:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40692 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ViCG7-0003oq-Bw for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Nov 2013 19:00:07 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:bLlCUfWr2puYGnlV40lcUWFrgBU= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:87708 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:16581 Archived-At: I "sort of" solved this. Check out the comments. (defvar *unread-mails*) (setq *unread-mails* "") (defun update-unread-mails () (let ((num-msgs (gnus-number-of-unseen-articles-in-group "alt.test"))) (setq *unread-mails* (if (< 0 num-msgs) "* MAIL *" "") ))) ;; I found it to be much better not to use the number. ;; Then you stare at that digit - could be 0, could be ;; 7, could it be... Zzz... until you get dizzy. The ;; idea was to have the computer tell you about mails, ;; not have *you* stare into a digit. (defun gnus-get-news-bg () (interactive) (let ((ori-buffer (current-buffer))) (gnus-start-or-show) ; basically (gnus) (switch-to-buffer ori-buffer) )) ; can this be avoided? (defun gnus-after-init () (gnus-demon-add-handler 'gnus-get-news-bg 1 t) (gnus-demon-init) ) (add-hook 'gnus-started-hook 'gnus-after-init) (add-hook 'gnus-get-new-news-hook 'update-unread-mails) (add-hook 'gnus-agent-fetched-hook 'update-unread-mails) (add-hook 'gnus-group-catchup-group-hook 'update-unread-mails) ;; One would think, there should be just one hook, to ;; reflect the change of state of the set of groups ;; *and* their unseen articles. -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573