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wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:

>   You could do this with itimers, but that's kind of yucky. :)

Yup; then the bodies would have to `(sit-for 0)' or something to let
the timers be run.  So the thing would have to be implemented in the C 
layer.

Anyway, RMS is positive to the idea, but he thinks it will be
difficult to implement.  Can one use `setitimer' and friends and
stuff?  Not that I have thought closely at how to implement this...

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen