From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52469 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: No Gnus todo item Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 12:32:42 -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: <4n1xz8ytat.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> References: <4nn0hxbbtw.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4n7k91b72e.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052498004 12228 80.91.224.249 (9 May 2003 16:33:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 16:33:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1013@lists.math.uh.edu Fri May 09 18:33:23 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 19EAmM-0002yK-00 for ; Fri, 09 May 2003 18:31:26 +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 19EAnh-0005YJ-00; Fri, 09 May 2003 11:32:49 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19EAnc-0005YE-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 09 May 2003 11:32:45 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 42309 invoked by alias); 9 May 2003 16:32:44 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 42304 invoked from network); 9 May 2003 16:32:44 -0000 Original-Received: from clifford.bwh.harvard.edu (134.174.9.41) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 9 May 2003 16:32:44 -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 h49GWgI25274 for ; Fri, 9 May 2003 12:32:42 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from tzz@localhost) by lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.0) id h49GWgP28330; Fri, 9 May 2003 12:32:42 -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: (Simon Josefsson's message of "Fri, 09 May 2003 00:48:53 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (usg-unix-v) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52469 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52469 On Fri, 09 May 2003, jas@extundo.com wrote: > Ted Zlatanov writes: >> I think we'd need asynchronous mail fetching and article count >> updates to do what you want. It's a very good goal, but it might >> require a major rewrite of Gnus. > > I don't think it is requires much work, it should be possible to do > even without touching existing code, I think. Simon, you would certainly know more about this than me. My impression was that there are a lot of global variables that relate to the "current" newsgroup, which might be a problem if we try to be asynchronous. I hope you find the time to implement this. Ted