Re: Gnus threading (was: expand/collapse{} in c++)

[Baloff <washdc@wash.edu>]

Jason Dufair <jase@dufair.org> writes:

> Baloff <washdc@xxx> writes:
> 
> > M-x gnus or even M-x 5 2 gnus, the frame or both frames freeze till it
> > finishes downloading the articles, then I can use emacs, is that the
> > way it is?
> 
> I believe this is indeed the way it is.  I understand from previous
> newsgroup discussions this is due to the fact that at least some parts
> of Emacs are not multi-threaded and so other internal processes are
> blocking on I/O of some sort.
> 
> I have gotten around this process by simply running Gnus in a separate
> Emacs process (and another frame, obviously).  Not the most elegant, but
> it does the trick.
> -- 
> Jason Dufair - jase@dufair.org


how do you start gnus inside an emacs processor right form the shell?
I $emacs& then M-x gnus every time. but even that does now show in 
$ps f
  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
 1066 pts/0    Ss+    0:00 bash
 1574 pts/0    Sl     4:19  \_ /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin -a firefox
 2402 pts/0    S      0:09  \_ emacs
 2406 pts/0    S      0:28  \_ emacs
  922 tty1     S      0:00 -bash
  923 tty1     S+     0:00  \_ /bin/sh /usr/bin/X11/startx
  934 tty1     S+     0:00      \_ xinit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xserverrc
  940 tty1     S      0:01          \_ x-session-manager
  989 tty1     S      0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon
  986 tty1     S      0:03 /usr/lib/gconf2/gconfd-2 5

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