From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Gnus attachment downloading blocks other Emacs interaction (was: w3 under development or not?) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:01:41 -0500 Organization: =?koi8-r?q?=F4=C5=CF=C4=CF=D2=20=FA=CC=C1=D4=C1=CE=CF=D7?= @ Cienfuegos Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <4nvfpn2b2y.fsf_-_@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> References: <878ymm6d18.fsf@lucien.dreaming> <87brrf2wsu.fsf@yahoo.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1068827003 21478 80.91.224.253 (14 Nov 2003 16:23:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:23:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 14 17:23:17 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AKgj6-0003gZ-00 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:23:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AKhYI-0002Yp-62 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:16:10 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!lockgroove.bwh.harvard.EDU!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Followup-To: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu (134.174.9.133) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1068825763 54511879 134.174.9.133 (16 [177066]) X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jnj/AtWSliYlB8VlcaP1n0YkeOw= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118243 gnu.emacs.gnus:68731 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14187 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14187 On 14 Nov 2003, test1dellboy3@yahoo.co.uk wrote: > I know this is slightly off-topic, but I have the same problem when > I download my email under GNUs. It hangs for a long time while 50 of > the latest "Microsoft Internet Security patches" or other crap are > retrieved. During this wait, I would prefer to be working in a > another Emacs window, but Emacs won't accept any input. > > As suggested, is it a "design feature" of Emacs rather than > configuration problem? I would suggest the gnu.emacs.gnus newsgroup for this discussion. Followup-To set appropriately. You can do two things (there may be other solutions, this is what I would do), separately or in combination: - use IMAP, which does not require you to download the whole message - use the Gnus spam.el package or a procmail-style filter to eliminate junk mail In addition, if you request the feature (asynchronous article downloading) in the Gnus newsgroup, maybe someone will write it. While Emacs itself is single-threaded, it can handle concurrent ("asynchronous") processes - see the start-process function, for instance. Gnus can take advantage of that, I think, and the possibility has been discussed before. Ted