From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67870 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: switch to another window while gnus is busy Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:00:35 +0100 Message-ID: <877i66wq0s.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <87vdtq1wii.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229018484 20577 80.91.229.12 (11 Dec 2008 18:01:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:01:24 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16316@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Dec 11 19:02:26 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LAprk-0002ar-Cl for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:02:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LApq9-0002mm-Qw; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:00:45 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LApq8-0002mW-NV for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:00:44 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LApq5-0005OU-My for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:00:44 -0600 Original-Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LApqH-0001MF-00 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:00:53 +0100 Original-Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E6A1E71A3 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:00:39 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:00:39 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: DvGNTG8jC5KJajylKFcPCJjV1AKJqsKEg8NGcyy+/fVj 1229018439 Original-Received: from thinkpad.tsdh.de (p54AF27B7.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.175.39.183]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 1A4D6173D2 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:00:38 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87vdtq1wii.fsf@jidanni.org> (jidanni@jidanni.org's message of "Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:56:05 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Mail-Copies-To: never Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org X-Spam-Score: -3.6 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67870 Archived-At: jidanni@jidanni.org writes: Hi! > Why must gnus dominate the whole emacs? Why can't I switch to another > window while gnus is busy, like I can with emacs-w3m? Cause emacs-w3m uses an external process (w3m) and therefore gains some sort of parallelism while Gnus does does the processing in emacs lisp which has no parellelism (at least currently). Hope that helps, Tassilo