Get notified when new entries populate your elfeed db.
elfeed is a wonderful RSS feed reader for Emacs. To my knowledge, it doesn’t come with a way to get notified when new entries are available among the feeds you are following.
elfeed-notifier will automatically run (elfeed-update) in the background and will populate global-mode-string if new entries are available
elfeed-notifier-delay is the delay between each synchronization. The default value is every 5 minutes.
elfeed-notifier-query is the elfeed QUERY that will be used to check if there are new entries to read. It defaults to elfeed-search-filter value. It’s most likely what most of people wants, but one could prefer to have notifications only if their favorite feeds got updated.
elfeed-notifier-modeline-formatter is a function that takes the number of entries as input and produces the string for the modeline as an output. It defaults to elfeed-notifier-default-mode-line-formatter
(defun elfeed-notifier-default-mode-line-formatter (nb)
"Take the number NB of entries and format the string for the
modeline"
(when (> nb 0)
(propertize (format "[N:%s]" nb) 'face 'elfeed-notifier-modeline-face)))elfeed-notifier-refresh-when-elfeed-used-p is a very long var name that determines if user wants elfeed-notifier to run (elfeed-update) when he/she is already using elfeed. Default to nil