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Is the lack of multithreading support in emacs a dealbreaker for you? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by saarin@alien.top to c/emacs
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[–] LionyxML@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I dream of a world gnus wont hang emacs.

[–] github-alphapapa@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I guess you should try Commercial Emacs, then.

[–] Thaodan@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If the author could only communicate better and bring his changes upstream..

I tried to see what do make of his first patch against Emacs 28 that bring threading to Gnus however it was quite hard to rebase/split them up as the original patch was just one big blob.

E.g. he doesn't just add threading to Gnus but also remove or rename variables, e.g. secondary select methods. He doesn't explain changes, he adds unnecessary or rude comments to the commits or code.

[–] github-alphapapa@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I didn't say it would be easy. ;)

[–] thetemp_@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I live in that world by outsourcing article fetching to external services and storing all messages/articles locally. The basic setup is this:

Emails:

  • Offlineimap syncs 2 Gmail accounts and connects directly to...
  • Dovecot as an IMAP server. Dovecot, stores the emails in Maildir format and Gnus's nnimap backend gets them from the local Dovecot server.

RSS/Atom feeds:

  • A program called Feed2exec saves RSS and Atom feeds in Maildir format. Dovecot monitors those folders and serves them to nnimap along with the emails. There is at least one other program that fetches newsfeeds to Maildir, but Feed2exec is in debian.

All 3 of these services do their job regardless of whether Emacs is running, and nnimap is super fast when the server is local.

I don't read actual newsgroups anymore. If I did, I'd install Leafnode for them. But I wonder if the nntp backend would benefit to the same extent that nnimap does.

[–] Thaodan@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I'm also using Gnus with IMAP directly too but connecting to a remote Dovecot on my root server. Fetching takes maybe 1 or 2 seconds at max.

I filter all my mails on my server before hand.