From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gnus makes emacs lose response Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:00:43 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156345385 9828 80.91.229.2 (23 Aug 2006 15:03:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:03:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: angeli@iwi.uni-sb.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 23 17:02:55 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GFuFP-0007ZA-TU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:02:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GFuFP-0006z4-Cv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:02:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GFuFA-0006y5-Rg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:02:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GFuF9-0006xC-Ty for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:02:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GFuF9-0006wq-Or for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:02:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.41.46.236] (helo=pfepb.post.tele.dk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GFuMy-0005Vv-Oa; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:10:16 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs-l.imdomain.dk.cua.dk (unknown [80.165.4.124]) by pfepb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id B50AEA5001A; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:01:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:45:30 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:58770 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > I see similar problems connection to one of the news servers at my ISP. > I just interrupt Gnus, and make anoter refresh -- I guess Gnus could > just as well do this automatically if there is no response from the > server it used last time. > > I don't entirely understand that proposal. Does it aim to work around > the failure of C-g? Does it aim to DTRT without need to type C-g? > If openssl could resume its connection when you reconnect the phone line, > would that make this proposal unnecessary? Would that make this proposal > undesirable or incorrect? The proposal is simply that Gnus should detect a stale connection to an NNTP server -- if the server doesn't respond in a timely manner, it should drop the connection and open a new one. As it is now, when I ask Gnus to look for new news, it sometimes "hang" for a long time waiting for the news server to respond -- since I'm impatient, I interrupt this with C-g (it works!) which seems to cause Gnus to close the connection. Then I simply repeat the "get new news" command manually. I think Gnus could do this automatically for me! -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk