From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24201 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnslashdot Date: 12 Jul 1999 19:48:11 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87aet1qss4.fsf@raven.localnet> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161808 7410 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:56:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:56:48 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA17201 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 20:48:57 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAB19546; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:48:33 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:49:24 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA26430 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:49:14 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from cs2868-35.austin.rr.com (mail@cs2868-35.austin.rr.com [24.28.68.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA17177 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 20:48:12 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from raven.localnet ([192.168.1.7] ident=mail) by cs2868-35.austin.rr.com with esmtp (Exim 2.11 #1 (Debian)) for ding@gnus.org id 113qnF-0002WM-00; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:51:33 -0500 Original-Received: from rlb by raven.localnet with local (Exim 2.11 #1 (Debian)) for ding@gnus.org id 113qjz-0003lQ-00; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 19:48:11 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Simon Josefsson's message of "12 Jul 1999 22:13:21 +0200" Original-Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24201 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24201 Simon Josefsson 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 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 -- Rob Browning PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930