Function: newsticker-start-ticker

newsticker-start-ticker is an autoloaded, interactive and byte-compiled function defined in newst-ticker.el.gz.

Signature

(newsticker-start-ticker)

Documentation

Start newsticker's ticker (but not the news retrieval).

Start display timer for the actual ticker if wanted and not running already.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/net/newst-ticker.el.gz
;;;###autoload
(defun newsticker-start-ticker ()
  "Start newsticker's ticker (but not the news retrieval).
Start display timer for the actual ticker if wanted and not
running already."
  (interactive)
  (when (and (> newsticker-ticker-interval 0)
             (not newsticker--ticker-period-timer)
             (not newsticker--ticker-timer))
      (if (> newsticker-ticker-period 0)
          (setq newsticker--ticker-period-timer
                (run-at-time nil
                             newsticker-ticker-period
                             #'newsticker--display-tick))
        (newsticker--display-tick))))