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Re: Tweaking get news in Gnus

🕢︎ - 2020-11-08

The solution I presented depend on the [ email ] topic being at the top and visible. That's not always the case, so I have changed my function to:

(defun asjo-group-get-new-news ()
  "Fetch news and move point"
  (interactive)
  (gnus-group-get-new-news)
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (when (search-forward " [" nil t)
    (let ((current-place (point)))
      (gnus-group-next-unread-group 1)
      (when (= current-place (point))
        (goto-char (point-min))))))

so it tries to find the first indented topic (which should be the first one after [ Gnus ]), and then goes to the first group with unread articles in it after that, which I think is a better solution.

Also using search-forward with NOERROR set allows the function to not show an error when there's nowhere to jump to.

🕢︎ - 2020-11-08 - 0 comments

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