From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/6443 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Miscelleous notes/bugs Date: 29 May 1996 23:07:35 +0200 Message-ID: References: <199605290849.KAA26099@client.metis.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035146897 3609 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:48:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:48:17 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA07567 for ; Wed, 29 May 1996 15:07:12 -0700 Original-Received: from eistla.ifi.uio.no (4867@eistla.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.29]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 29 May 1996 23:37:09 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by eistla.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 29 May 1996 23:37:08 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Steinar Bang's message of Wed, 29 May 1996 10:49:24 +0200 Original-Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.3/Emacs 19.29 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6443 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:6443 Steinar Bang writes: > > Raja R Harinath writes: > >> Should `gnus-demon' be rewritten to use the new API of Emacs timers > >> (run-with-timer, run-with-idle-timer)? > Interesting! I haven't unpacked 19.31 yet (high on the TODO list), so > I don't _know_ what 19.31 timers are... but if they are what I *think* > they are, we can have pseudo multithreading. Or...? Things like `run-with-idle-timer' makes it lots easier to have Emacs do things "in the background" when Emacs is idle. So, yes. It still isn't trivial to use, though. And a pain to debug. -- "Yes. The journey through the human heart would have to wait until some other time."