Re: Getting articles asynchronously.....

[Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@ccs.neu.edu>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

>>>>> "PA" == Patrick Audley <paudley@portal.ca> writes:

PA> 	Since Gnus can already fetch articles in the background

Actually, it doesn't.  The asynchronous article fetch occours when Emacs
isn't doing anything else.  Ie, it is multitasking, not multithreading,
just like an inferior shell process.  Inferior shells are the same: the
inferior process (shell, TCP/IP connection, whatever) is chugging along
independant of Emacs, spitting output through whatever (interrupt driver
like) process handler has been set up.

What you are asking is to have Emacs do two things at once: process
marked articles and read more news.  Neither of these are handled in
inferior processes.  In short, Emacs just can't do it because it isn't
threaded.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: 2.6.2
Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface

iQCVAwUBMOCGZp6VRH7BJMxHAQHOfAP/dEd/BxsGYYe1nwszW/ID55rGjwh41Htm
GaAbuyuJNl9n/luI1iuArf22esMx4QhVE6bo4+esje+6VL0TPcvpobESmRrbyqma
7nm6o5EAusg9ZPpPMQWD48nscQiZX+iebDGzT9J+mzCgx1IIzL1fogk9GyhJOs3R
5GcCZBr5u24=
=aRCT
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-- 
Rat <ratinox@ccs.neu.edu>          \ Do not use Happy Fun Ball on concrete.
PGP Public Key: Ask for one today!  \ 
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/ratinox/ \