From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: How's the buglist going now?
Date: 07 Mar 1998 14:24:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3hg5askf2.fsf@sparky.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Mike McEwan's message of "06 Mar 1998 01:32:41 +0000"
Mike McEwan <mike@lotusland.demon.co.uk> writes:
> I was wondering if Lars, or anyone in the know could tell me when
> expiry under the `agent' is likely to be sorted out -
Today or tomorrow is my plan.
> Whilst I'm here, I note that in the `Newest Features' node of the
> gnus manual for quassia, there is the intention to `push active file
> and NOV file parsing down into C code'. This would really speed things
> up no? I've just started with C and was curious as to how this might
> be easily accomplished - would the active file and/or NOV files be
> passed to a C program in a buffer via the elisp `call-process'
> function and the parsed output returned in another (or perhaps the
> same) buffer? If I can work out what kind of parsing takes place here,
> I'd like to give it a go - some kind of high level spec would help (my
> elisp is novice too).
RMS and I went over this a while back, and we decided on something.
I've got it archived somewhere, but I don't recally the details
exactly. We settled on a quite general scheme.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-03-06 1:32 Mike McEwan
1998-03-06 2:05 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-03-07 13:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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