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Simon Josefsson writes:

> Wes Hardaker writes:
> 
> > Actually, I've been thinking a lot lately about how to make gnus more
> > asynchronous, and I think its possible to do things like dynamic
> > summary buffer updates while you're looking at it and its still
> > pulling in headers.
....
> 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.

Emacs supports the event driven model when it comes to TCP.  So you
would not need to use idle-timers.  W3 already uses this and picons
uses W3's asynchronous mode.  But it is quite messy when you don't
have real closures to do the work...

Kim-Minh.