Re: Very interesting analysis of "the state of Emacs"

[David Kastrup]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> Stephen Eilert <address@hidden> writes:
>> Before diving in the merits of whether or not it is possible to add
>> multi-tasking to Emacs (by that I assume full-blown threads), what are
>> the problems this is trying to solve?
>
> One thing I've heard a lot is that it's annoying to wait 5 minutes for
> gnus to finish reading in a huge group or something.
>
> Of course Gnus could be rewritten to do potentially lengthy stuff in the
> background (and that's what usually happens with such things ... e.g.,
> "M-x man"), but it's probably not easy,

M-x customize-variable RET gnus-asynchronous RET

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum