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* Gnus state, feed commands
@ 2013-11-16 18:17 Emanuel Berg
  2013-11-16 18:25 ` Bastien
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  0 siblings, 4 replies; 26+ messages in thread
From: Emanuel Berg @ 2013-11-16 18:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: help-gnu-emacs

In Gnus, I have a group like this:

mail.misc (5)

to collect incomings mails.

I'm thinking, wouldn't it be cool if you never had to
check for mails, instead Emacs did that, and then told
you "you have 5 mails" in the mode line?

I guess I could schedule checking with
`run-with-idle-timer' - coincidentally, that's great,
because when you work (i.e., type) you don't want to be
disturbed and get mails, but when you idle for some
time, it would be a good slot for Emacs to check for
them.

To change the mode line, I have this in my .emacs:

(defun set-mode-line ()
  "Mode line: Show the mode line elements if the
respective global booleans are set."
  (interactive)
  (setq-default mode-line-format
   `(" "
     (*show-mode-line-modified* mode-line-modified)
     (*show-mode-line-modified* " ")
     (*show-mode-line-caption* *mode-line-caption*)
     (*show-mode-line-caption* " ")
     (*show-default-directory* default-directory)
     (*show-mode-line-buffer-identification* mode-line-buffer-identification)
     (*show-mode-line-buffer-identification* " ")
     (line-number-mode   "[%l] ")
     (column-number-mode "{%c} ")
     (*show-mode-line-modes* mode-line-modes)
     )))
(set-mode-line)

So you see, putting that information in the mode line
shouldn't be that difficult.

But what I don't know is: how do I access the "state"
of Gnus? I.e., how do I get that number "5"? And, how
do I feed command to Gnus, in the background, without
switching buffers or triggering any other visual noise?

-- 
Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu
underground experts united:  http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573


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2013-11-17 13:47   ` Emanuel Berg
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2013-11-18 22:11       ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-19  1:53         ` Eric Abrahamsen
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2013-11-19  2:07           ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-19  8:50             ` Eric Abrahamsen
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2013-11-19 22:31               ` Size of Gnus and Emacs (was: Re: Gnus state, feed commands) Emanuel Berg
2013-11-20  3:34                 ` Size of Gnus and Emacs Jambunathan K
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2013-11-20  3:41                   ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-20  7:48                 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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2013-11-20 16:35                   ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-21  0:59                     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-12-01  6:49                     ` Jambunathan K
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2013-12-01 16:46                       ` Emanuel Berg
2013-12-02  5:29                         ` Jambunathan K
2013-12-02 16:48                           ` Emanuel Berg
2013-12-02  5:51                         ` Jambunathan K
2013-12-02 16:53                           ` Emanuel Berg

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