Newsticker downloads news periodically in the background. This is triggered as soon as you start reading news (Reading News).
Alternatively you may use the command newsticker-start
(newsticker-stop) in order to start (stop) the periodic
download of news without opening the reader.
The following variables define which feeds are fetched and how this is done.
newsticker-url-list-defaultsYou may select any number of feeds from this list of (sample) news feeds.
newsticker-url-listAll your personal news feeds are defined here. Each feed is identified by its name and an URL. You may set the start-time and the retrieval interval for each feed as well as the retrieval command arguments in case that the default values do not fit a certain feed.
newsticker-retrieval-methodBy default Newsticker uses Emacs’s built-in download capabilities for
fetching headlines. You may change this to use an external tool like
wget. In this case you need to set newsticker-wget-name
and possibly newsticker-wget-arguments.
newsticker-retrieval-intervalThe number of seconds between headline retrievals.