From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/22458 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: nnmail-split-header-length-limit is EVIL! Date: 17 Apr 1999 08:16:43 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87sobotazh.fsf@pc-hrvoje.srce.hr> <87u2vxfn00.fsf@pc-hrvoje.srce.hr> <87k8whq4kx.fsf@pc-hrvoje.srce.hr> <8790cgf3pl.fsf@graaff.xs4all.nl> <87soaidw8i.fsf@graaff.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035160374 29394 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:32:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:32:54 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA22976 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 02:33:55 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAB10085; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 01:33:03 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 17 Apr 1999 01:32:48 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA01669 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 01:31:37 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org (larsi@ppp003.uio.no [129.240.240.4]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA22899 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 02:31:26 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by quimbies.gnus.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA13209; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 08:30:43 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: Lois McMaster Bujold's _The Vor Game_ X-Now-Playing: Various's _Too Pure - The Peel Sessions_: "P. J. Harvey - Oh My Lover" Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Hans de Graaff's message of "03 Apr 1999 09:00:29 +0200" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070082 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.82) XEmacs/21.2(beta3) (Aglaia) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ 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