Re: Checking groups independently every few minutes

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 14 May 2008 10:45:58 +0100 pocm@soton.ac.uk (Paulo Jorge de O. C. de 
Matos) wrote: 

PJdOCdM> Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
>> Not currently, but it's been requested before.  If you set the levels
>> for your topics/groups appropriately, you can ask for only levels N and
>> above to be refreshed.  That may be enough for you.
>> 

PJdOCdM> OK, thanks I will look into it then. How about setting up to check
PJdOCdM> everything every 30min? 

You can kind of do it with the daemon.  I don't use it myself, but the
manual explains it.

PJdOCdM> Also, is there a way to check it without blocking the other
PJdOCdM> buffers?

Unfortunately no.  Emacs itself is single-threaded (except for I/O
subprocesses) and packages go to great lengths to simulate background
behavior.  Gnus is one of the reasons why people are talking about
making Emacs support multiple threads in the Emacs development mailing
lists, but a) it's all talk so far, and b) it's been proposed many times
before.  So at least for the next year or two I wouldn't expect things
to change.

Ted