From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Gnus: caching message headers?
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2020 10:53:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1rdqxrk.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: alpine.NEB.2.22.394.2009071942460453.4806@sdf.lonestar.org
Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
>>> I'm clearly not an expert, but would it not be enough to save and
>>> retrieve the contents of nntp-server-buffer in
>>> nnimap-retrieve-headers? Or are you thinking about a more generic
>>> solution that would work with all backends?
>>
>> We could do something ad-hoc for nnimap, but yes I'm thinking of
>> something more generic. All the header data (what's used to create
>> the Summary display) is held in variables that are local to the
>> Summary buffer, so in principle there's no reason we couldn't just
>> leave the local data in place when we leave the buffer. There are
>> plenty of obstacles to making it work correctly, but in principle I
>> don't see why not.
>>
>
> I would be happy with an ad-hoc solution for nnimap, which I suppose
> is the most used backend these days (but I could be wrong). In fact I
> wasn't thinking of just leaving the local data in place when the
> summary buffer is left (which could eat a lot of memory), but instead
> to store them permanently in a cache on disk, and to read that file
> again instead of doing a "UID FETCH" on the server.
Check out wgreenhouse's suggestion!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-07 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-07 15:23 Gnus: caching message headers? Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-09-07 16:26 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-09-07 17:10 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-09-07 17:37 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-09-07 17:49 ` wgreenhouse
2020-09-08 13:19 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-09-08 13:37 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-09-08 14:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-08 17:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-09-08 21:52 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-09-08 22:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-08 16:12 ` wgreenhouse
2020-09-08 20:39 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-09-07 17:50 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-09-07 17:53 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2020-09-07 23:48 ` Multiple summary buffers (was: Gnus: caching message headers?) Tim Landscheidt
2020-09-08 0:22 ` Multiple summary buffers Eric Abrahamsen
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2020-09-10 8:38 Gnus: caching message headers? Ozhap
2020-09-10 9:00 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-09-10 9:34 ` Ozhap
2020-09-10 9:45 ` Ozhap
2020-09-10 13:16 ` wgreenhouse
2020-09-10 23:41 Ozhap
2020-09-11 22:59 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-09-12 23:08 ` Ozhap
2020-09-12 23:29 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-10-04 9:12 ` Madhu
2020-10-07 11:39 Ozhap
2020-10-08 1:59 Ozhap
2020-10-08 3:28 Ozhap
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