From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Gnus state, feed commands Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 19:31:49 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87d2m019ld.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <87ob5k1a9q.fsf__48304.1452513591$1384626024$gmane$org@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384626917 11890 80.91.229.3 (16 Nov 2013 18:35:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 18:35:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 16 19:35:21 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1VhkiG-0007qt-5Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 19:35:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36611 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VhkiF-0002bQ-H0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Nov 2013 13:35:19 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 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:Udl1i/ospLMToSsoNZwsIObsLHM= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202245 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94514 Archived-At: Bastien writes: >> 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 use `display-time-mail-string' I don't seem to have that. It sounds like a variable. (I don't have it as a variable or a function.) > which simply displays a string when you have new > mails -- that's enough for my needs, but maybe you > need something fancier. Probably :) No, serious, I will check out all the work on this before starting to work myself, of course. If it is there, I'll be happy to use it. Result is what matters, not who did it. -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573