Re: pgnus commandeers emacs to check mail

[Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>]

On 19 Jul 1999 20:19:19 -0400
in article <m3673g18c8.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> said:

  ssr> * Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>  on Mon, 19 Jul 1999
  ssr> | When pgnus checks for new mail/news, I can't do anything in that
  ssr> | invocation of emacs until pgnus finishes. Keyboard input is
  ssr> | accumulated until then. When our news server is slow or if there's a
  ssr> | boatload of email to download, emacs can be useless for quite a while.

  ssr> Emacs is not threaded (and it probably will never be, at least
  ssr> not in its current incarnation). So you have to cheat a little
  ssr> bit: start a second instance of Emacs just for Gnus.

Heh - I started running a second emacs just for gnus, but even then I
get bugged by this when writing email. It's like a cat jumping on my
lap when I least expect it (hmm... did Lars use that analogy once upon
a time to describe mail fetching?)

I could increase the time between fetches (it's at 10 minutes now) but
then I find myself hopping over to type 'g' all the time. Just a gnus
junkie, I guess.

Hm - maybe the dual-gnus setup Lars uses would help. Need to dig in
the archives.

Thanks for the idea -

bw
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