From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/24393 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill White Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: pgnus commandeers emacs to check mail Date: 19 Jul 1999 16:12:23 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035161967 8468 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:59:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:59:27 +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 RAA23228 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 17:26:21 -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 QAB09394; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 16:25:49 -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 16:26:21 -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 QAA24203 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 16:26:11 -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 RAA23202 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 17:25:05 -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 QAA20569 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 16:12:35 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from billw@localhost) by g.wolfram.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) id QAA01529; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 16:12:24 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 33 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:24393 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:24393 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