From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14463 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How's the buglist going now? Date: 07 Mar 1998 14:24:49 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153649 16265 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:40:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA10656 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 05:33:54 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA06553 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 07:29:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAN18989; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 08:04:28 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 07 Mar 1998 07:26:57 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA20859 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 07:26:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 6215 invoked by uid 504); 7 Mar 1998 13:26:27 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 6210 invoked from network); 7 Mar 1998 13:26:25 -0000 Original-Received: from xyplex17.uio.no (HELO sparky.gnus.org) (129.240.154.37) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 7 Mar 1998 13:26:24 -0000 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by sparky.gnus.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA04767; Sat, 7 Mar 1998 14:32:35 +0100 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Throwing Muses's _House Tornado_: "Drive" Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Mike McEwan's message of "06 Mar 1998 01:32:41 +0000" X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.35/Emacs 19.34 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ 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