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From: Bill White <billw@wolfram.com>
Subject: pgnus commandeers emacs to check mail
Date: 19 Jul 1999 16:12:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ruozp0s739k.fsf@g.wolfram.com> (raw)

Sounds like a newspaper headline.

This is about my only continuing gripe with gnus:

When pgnus checks for new mail/news, I can't do anything in that
invocation of emacs until pgnus finishes. Keyboard input is
accumulated until then. When our news server is slow or if there's a
boatload of email to download, emacs can be useless for quite a while.

This happens with 'g' in the *Group* buffer, and also with the
automatic "check mail/news and update *Group* buffer" function in
.gnus:

; Posted to ding or gnu.emacs.gnus long ago...
; The catch with gnus-demon-scanmail seems to be that the Group buffer
; doesn't get updated when the mail is fetched (so nothing actually
; appears to happen). I do this instead:

(gnus-demon-add-handler (lambda () (gnus-group-get-new-news t)) 10 nil)

Is there a way to make mail/news checking a completely unobtrusive
thing? 

Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95, GNU Emacs 20.4.1 (i586-pc-linux-gnu, X
toolkit) of Fri Jul 16 1999 on g.wolfram.com

This was also seen in Emacs 20.3 and all the 20.4 prereleases.

Thanks -

bw
-- 
Bill White . billw@wolfram.com . http://members.wri.com/billw


             reply	other threads:[~1999-07-19 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-07-19 21:12 Bill White [this message]
1999-07-19 22:12 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-07-21 20:32   ` Greg Stark
1999-07-22 10:07     ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-07-22 11:57       ` Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
1999-07-20  0:19 ` Stainless Steel Rat
1999-07-20  0:49   ` Bill White
1999-07-20 17:16   ` Rajesh Godbole
1999-07-20 18:02     ` Kai Großjohann
1999-07-21 10:50       ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-07-21 11:11         ` Kai Großjohann
1999-07-21 11:35           ` Didier Verna
1999-07-28 12:27             ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1999-07-22 10:09           ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-07-20 19:07     ` Olivier Galibert
1999-07-20 23:31       ` Rajesh Godbole
1999-07-21  6:18     ` Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]
1999-07-21 15:06       ` Karl M. Hegbloom

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