Re: nnslashdot

[Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>]

Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> writes:

> I don't think so, TCP connections are also asynchronous, but you
> could also run some code with idle-timer to do things like this. I
> think that could work quite well, and the code written to work with
> that would require small changes if/when emacs get threads.

The emacs hosted on guile movement is starting to make noise again
(with elisp compatibiliy provided by a translation engine).  If that
were to happen, there'd at least be an underlying threaded base.  Note
that they understand how complicated this job is and expect it to take
on the order of years, but they do have some things working already.
There was a post to the guile list about it a little while ago.
They're looking for interested programmers.

Excerpt from the call for programmers:

Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org> writes:

> The longer version, for those who want to help:
> 
> Actually, a fair amount of stuff is working at the moment.  It
> crashes sometimes, and there's no way I'd trust it with my email,
> but it pops up windows, it reads files and colors them in font-lock
> mode, it browses directories, it plays hanoi, it eats up virtual
> memory, lots of basic Emacs stuff like that.
> ...

FWIW

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