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Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> 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.
...
> Dynamic group updates would be cool too...  You get a group buffer
> listing and the items slowly change from * to 75, etc...

Yes, I've been thinking about this too, it would be cool. Every time I
think about things like this I tend to end up cursing emacs for not
having threads though.

> All this requires backends that use external programs I would think
> though

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.