newsticker: Headline Management
4 Headline Management
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Newsticker assigns a status (or “age”) to each headline which you can
modify manually. This makes it easy to distinguish new headlines from
old ones, to keep important headlines, to hide boring headlines etc. An
item is “new” when it has just arrived and has not been read. You can
mark it as “old” when you have read it or – if you want to keep it – you
can mark it as “immortal”. You can do that manually and you can define
filters which do that automatically, see below. When a headline has
vanished from the feed it is automatically marked as “obsolete” unless
it has the status “immortal”. “Obsolete” headlines get removed
automatically after a certain time.
‘newsticker-auto-mark-filter-list’
You may define any number of filters for automatically marking
newly arrived headlines as “immortal” or “old”. A filter looks for
a regular expression in either the title or the description of a
headline and then, if the expression matches, marks the headline as
“immortal” or as “old”. This is done only once, when a headline is
fetched for the very first time.
‘newsticker-keep-obsolete-items’
Obsolete headlines are removed immediately unless
‘newsticker-keep-obsolete-items’ is non-nil in which case they are
kept until ‘newsticker-obsolete-item-max-age’ is reached.
‘newsticker-automatically-mark-items-as-old’
If this is set to ‘t’ then a “new” item becomes “old” as soon as it
is retrieved a second time.
Info Catalog
newsticker: Retrieving News
newsticker: Top
newsticker: Reading News