From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Gnus state, feed commands
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 19:17:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ob5k1a9q.fsf__48304.1452513591$1384626024$gmane$org@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> (raw)
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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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-16 18:17 Emanuel Berg [this message]
2013-11-16 18:25 ` Gnus state, feed commands Bastien
[not found] ` <mailman.6374.1384626320.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-16 18:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-16 18:50 ` Bastien
[not found] ` <mailman.6376.1384627827.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-16 19:16 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-16 19:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-11-17 3:57 ` Eric Abrahamsen
[not found] ` <mailman.6403.1384660589.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-17 13:47 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-17 23:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-18 2:43 ` Eric Abrahamsen
[not found] ` <mailman.6460.1384742532.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-18 22:11 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-19 1:53 ` Eric Abrahamsen
[not found] ` <mailman.6527.1384825935.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-19 2:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-19 8:50 ` Eric Abrahamsen
[not found] ` <mailman.6544.1384850944.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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
[not found] ` <mailman.6582.1384918585.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-20 3:41 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-20 7:48 ` Eric Abrahamsen
[not found] ` <mailman.6592.1384933633.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-11-20 16:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2013-11-21 0:59 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-12-01 6:49 ` Jambunathan K
[not found] ` <mailman.7692.1385880597.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
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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