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>>>>> On 12 Jul 1999 22:13:21 +0200, Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se> said:

>> Dynamic group updates would be cool too...  You get a group buffer
>> listing and the items slowly change from * to 75, etc...

Simon> Yes, I've been thinking about this too, it would be cool. Every
Simon> time I think about things like this I tend to end up cursing
Simon> emacs for not having threads though.

>> All this requires backends that use external programs I would think
>> though

Simon> I don't think so, TCP connections are also asynchronous, but
Simon> you could also run some code with idle-timer to do things like
Simon> this.

Cool..  So, ya gonna do it ;-) ?

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