I’ve used GNUS to read my mail for a long time now.\u00a0 Every once in a while I try to move to something else because of simplicity or ease of use, but I always come back.\u00a0 The unparalleled ability to customize and script the environment is just really hard to beat.<\/p>\n
The “resting state” in GNUS is the group buffer, which shows you (by default) only groups that have unread messages in them.\u00a0 I like this a lot as it provides a sort of dashboard to the mail items that need attention.\u00a0 However, if I need to recall an already-read message, I have to hit L to show all groups, and then search (because I have a lot) for the appropriate group and then enter it to find the message.\u00a0 This isn’t a huge hassle, but sometimes I get annoyed at the process.<\/p>\n
Since 90% of the time, I’m recalling messages from my inbox, I decided to write a function that would make this common case quicker.\u00a0 I came up with the following bit of elisp:<\/p>\n
\n(defun dan\/select-inbox ()
\u00a0 “Select inbox”
\u00a0 (interactive)
\u00a0 (save-excursion
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (gnus-group-list-all-groups)
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (if (search-forward-regexp “mail.*misc” (point-max) t)
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0(gnus-group-select-group))))<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nAssuming I’m in the group buffer, I can run this function and it asks me right away how many messages I want to view from my inbox.\u00a0 Naturally, I want a quick key sequence to trigger this function, so I chose the unused “G i”keys for “Group…Inbox”.\u00a0 I bound it thusly:<\/p>\n
\n\u00a0(define-key gnus-group-group-map “i” ‘dan\/select-inbox)<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Now from inside the group buffer, I can hit “G i”, type “10” (or so) and quickly recall recent messages.<\/p>\n
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