From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/15855 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ben Kibbey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: A Gnus Biff Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:13:30 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87lifteaad.fsf@luxsci.net> References: 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 1348892107 12815 80.91.229.3 (29 Sep 2012 04:15:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 04:15:07 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 29 06:15:13 2012 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 1THoSO-0001i0-7I for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 06:15:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34412 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1THoSI-0007aV-Sk for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:15:06 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 0bQcPFPe6KlJsYJF31zYjQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:rZrBP6St2Uqkg3jGzhrZqzgCc5c= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:86946 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:15855 Archived-At: William Gardella writes: > Hey, > > I'm in the process of writing a simple "biff" for Gnus, to notify me if > one or more of a list of designated Gnus groups has unread messages in > it (see below). So far it crudely works, and is suitable for use > interactively or by `display-time-mail-function' if you want "Mail" to > appear in the mode line for Gnus messages instead of mails in your local > mailspool. What it doesn't have as yet, as you'll see, is very good > error handling. It may be off-topic to the subject, but I wish someone would redo maildir support in Emacs to handle message flags. I have maildir mailboxes and use conky to show mailbox status (new messages) then call gnus-group-get-new-news to refresh the mailbox display after the messages have been retrieved from fetchmail. The problem is that each message status is overwritten by gnus (no longer new to conky) and I am no longer notified of new messages on any workspace (sawfish) until I visit the gnus frame in another workspace. I could prevent refreshing the gnus mail status by preventing the gnus-group-get-new-news call (emacsclient) and keep the conky message status as new, but then I would still have to refresh the gnus frame to see the new messages. Others have had this dillema and I wish I could submit a patch to fix it but I don't have the elisp expertise. Or maybe I'm missing something? Maybe there is a better gnus/maildir/conky setup someone else has? -- Ben Kibbey