From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24400 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill White Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: pgnus commandeers emacs to check mail Date: 19 Jul 1999 19:49:52 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161973 8506 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:59:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:59:33 +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 UAA28082 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:50:17 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAB11317; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 19:49:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 19 Jul 1999 19:50:43 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA25947 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 19:50:33 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from dragonfly.wolfram.com (root@dragonfly.wolfram.com [140.177.10.12]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA28049 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:49:28 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from g.wolfram.com (billw@g.wolfram.com [140.177.4.48]) by dragonfly.wolfram.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA13407 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 19:49:27 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from billw@localhost) by g.wolfram.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) id TAA02313; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 19:49:52 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of "19 Jul 1999 20:19:19 -0400" Original-Lines: 31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070095 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24400 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24400 On 19 Jul 1999 20:19:19 -0400 in article Stainless Steel Rat said: ssr> * Bill White 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 -- Bill White . billw@wolfram.com . http://members.wri.com/billw