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From: David Edmondson <dme@dme.org>
To: Antono Vasiljev <self@antono.info>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Perform mail polling asynchronously
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:02:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cunr4zg6afw.fsf@hotblack-desiato.hh.sledj.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1315196076-9254-1-git-send-email-self@antono.info>

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On Mon,  5 Sep 2011 07:14:36 +0300, Antono Vasiljev <self@antono.info> wrote:
>   * reimplemented notmuch-poll(&optional callback) so that it
>     calls process asynchronously and run callback after process
>     finished
>   * changed usage of notmuch-poll in notmuch-hello-poll-and-update
>     and notmuch-search-poll-and-refresh-view

I don't understand the real purpose of this patch.

If the poll script runs asynchronously, won't the notmuch-search output
refresh and jump into my face when I'm busy doing something else? And,
if I'm not busy doing something else, why can't I just wait for the poll
script to complete?

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-03 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-05  4:14 [PATCH] Perform mail polling asynchronously Antono Vasiljev
2012-01-03 16:02 ` David Edmondson [this message]
2012-01-06 11:09   ` Antono Vasiljev
2012-01-06 11:25     ` David Edmondson
2012-01-06 14:45   ` Jesse Rosenthal
2012-01-06 15:25     ` David Edmondson

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