From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/12828 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Asynchronous backend interface Date: 13 Nov 1997 22:19:37 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152297 5909 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:18:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:18:17 +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 QAA26684 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 16:00:11 -0800 Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA11547 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 18:00:39 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.7/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with SMTP id XAA06544 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 23:33:07 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (qmail 455 invoked by uid 504); 13 Nov 1997 22:33:03 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 448 invoked from network); 13 Nov 1997 22:32:59 -0000 Original-Received: from xyplex17.uio.no (HELO sparky.gnus.org) (129.240.154.37) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 13 Nov 1997 22:32:55 -0000 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by sparky.gnus.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA09106; Thu, 13 Nov 1997 23:32:49 +0100 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Greg Stark's message of "07 Nov 1997 02:28:38 -0500" X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.14/XEmacs 19.15 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could check for new news while editting a > buffer. Or Gnus was capable of querying more than one backend at the same > time? Or if you could be reading one group while generating a particularly > large summary buffer at the same time? [...] > If you don't believe me that this would be possible check the > archives for the two previous times i've proposed this, the first > would be near the September Gnus code freeze, and the second > sometime during Red Gnus development. Oops. I think Quassia Gnus just went into feature freeze. :-) > It wouldn't be useful for everyone all the time. If you have a very fast > network connection your emacs might be unresponsive handling i/o. But if you > have a handful of slow foreign servers it would be very useful to scan them > while also getting all the quick stuff at the same time. If you have a slow > network connection it would just be nice to be able to download large summary > buffers without locking up your emacs while they download. Yes, it would be nice, but it will be quite a bit of work to get it to work ok. It's something I can't do anytime soon. (The code freeze thing was a joke, though.) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen