7 Configuration

All Newsticker options are customizable, i.e., they can be changed with Emacs customization methods. Call the command customize-group and enter ‘newsticker’ for the customization group.

The following list shows the available groups of Newsticker options and some of the most important options.

• newsticker-retrieval contains options that define which news feeds are retrieved and how this is done.
  • newsticker-url-list defines the list of headlines that are retrieved.
  • newsticker-retrieval-method defines how headlines are retrieved. This is either done using Emacs’s built-in download capabilities or using an external tool.
  • newsticker-retrieval-interval defines how often headlines are retrieved.
• newsticker-headline-processing contains options that define how the retrieved headlines are processed.
  • newsticker-keep-obsolete-items decides whether unread headlines that have been removed from the feed are kept in the Newsticker cache.
  • newsticker-auto-mark-filter-list provides the possibility to automatically mark headlines as immortal or old.
• newsticker-hooks contains options for hooking other Emacs commands to newsticker functions.
  • newsticker-new-item-functions allows for automatic processing of headlines. See newsticker-download-images, and newsticker-download-enclosures for sample functions.
  • The subgroup newsticker-plainview-hooks contains hooks that apply to the plainview reader only.
• newsticker-miscellaneous contains other Newsticker options.
• newsticker-ticker contains options that define how headlines are shown in the echo area, i.e., the “ticker”.
  • newsticker-ticker-interval and newsticker-scroll-smoothly define how headlines are shown in the echo area.
• newsticker-reader contains options for adjusting the headline reader.
  • newsticker-frontend determines the actual headline reader. The “plainview” reader uses a single buffer, the “treeview” uses separate buffers and windows.
  • The subgroup newsticker-plainview contains options for the plainview reader.
  • The subgroup newsticker-treeview contains options for the treeview reader.

For the complete list of options please have a look at the customization buffers.