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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: nnmail-split-header-length-limit is EVIL!
Date: 17 Apr 1999 08:16:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zp47eppw.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Hans de Graaff's message of "03 Apr 1999 09:00:29 +0200"

Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl> writes:

> I know just enough lisp to get Gnus to do what I want, so I'm not sure 
> how practical this would be, but could you not to the regexp matching
> in an asynchronous subprocess, and then either use the result if not
> too much time has passed, and otherwise delete the process and move on 
> with an error?

Nope.  The matching is done by `re-search-*', and since Emacs is not a 
multithreaded operating system (yet), that can't be done.

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


  reply	other threads:[~1999-04-17  6:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-03-02 10:57 Hrvoje Niksic
1999-03-06 18:16 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-03-07 13:27   ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-03-14 15:53     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-03-16  7:25       ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-03-28 15:09         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-03-29 20:20           ` Hans de Graaff
1999-04-02 14:03             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-04-03  7:00               ` Hans de Graaff
1999-04-17  6:16                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1999-04-13  7:04               ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-04-17  6:15                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-03-30  6:05           ` Dale Hagglund
1999-03-31  3:02             ` Greg Stark
1999-03-31  7:17               ` Dale Hagglund
1999-04-01  2:54                 ` Peter Seibel
1999-04-01  7:02                   ` Dale Hagglund
1999-04-01  7:13                     ` Peter Seibel

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