From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52939 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: fast local-file storage for Gnus Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 11:23:53 -0400 Organization: =?koi8-r?q?=F4=C5=CF=C4=CF=D2=20=FA=CC=C1=D4=C1=CE=CF=D7?= @ Cienfuegos Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <4n1xygihkm.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> References: <4nvfw19zgy.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <87smqwedvf.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054308333 7729 80.91.224.249 (30 May 2003 15:25:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 15:25:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1483@lists.math.uh.edu Fri May 30 17:25:31 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19LljA-0001pU-00 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 17:23:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19Llji-0004WV-00; Fri, 30 May 2003 10:24:06 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19Lljd-0004WQ-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 30 May 2003 10:24:01 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 82667 invoked by alias); 30 May 2003 15:24:00 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 82659 invoked from network); 30 May 2003 15:24:00 -0000 Original-Received: from clifford.bwh.harvard.edu (134.174.9.41) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 30 May 2003 15:24:00 -0000 Original-Received: from lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu (lockgroove [134.174.9.133]) by clifford.bwh.harvard.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.11.0) with ESMTP id h4UFNrI07992 for ; Fri, 30 May 2003 11:23:54 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from tzz@localhost) by lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.0) id h4UFNrK06680; Fri, 30 May 2003 11:23:53 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87smqwedvf.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> (Josh Huber's message of "Fri, 30 May 2003 09:57:24 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (usg-unix-v) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52939 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52939 On Fri, 30 May 2003, huber@alum.wpi.edu wrote: > Dave Love writes: >=20 >> If there's really a reason (size?) you can't read data into Emacs, >> your only option is to run something in a sub-process (=E0 la >> Ispell). >=20 > I take it this is not a standard feature across emacs/Xemacs: >=20 > http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/21.5/html/lispref_52.html >=20 > I haven't used it, but wouldn't it be nice...hmm... I don't know why it's not in Emacs yet, it seems like a very simple feature to add BerkeleyDB/DBM interfaces that can be configured at compile-time like a lot of other GNU packages do (at least cfengine, that I know of), and interfaced similarly to the way XEmacs does it. Does anyone know why it's not done yet, before I go asking emacs-devel? Gnus could probably use fast file databases in aspects other than the registry. Ted