Omar Antolín
paniash
Теодор Златанов / Ted Zlatanov@paniash @oantolin I’ve been using #emacs #gnus for decades and contributed code to it. It’s a great experience and will work with gmail for instance. It has a ridiculous amount of features.
Sending e-mail takes seconds so it’s not particularly annoying that it happens in the main thread.
People have been talking about using the Emacs threads for parallelizing the article fetch, threading, scoring, and sorting for years but no one has done the work. That first time delay (a few seconds for larger groups, can be a minute or more for huge groups) may annoy you if you value performance very highly but I don’t think it’s particularly bad. It’s worth trying,
@tzz @paniash I agree that GNUS locking up Emacs is not problematic at all. Fetching new mail from my Gmail account takes about as long as it takes for the Gmail web app to refresh anyway. And after sending an email, I usually need to context-switch, to remember what the next thing I wanted to do was; so I barely even notice that there's that Emacs is locked up for a second.
Daniel Mendler@tzz @oantolin Actually, there was a guy who had an extensive set of patches for asynchronous GNUS but made the mistake of sending it as one huge patch to the emacs-devel mailing list. For whatever reason, he didn't bother resending as smaller separate patches and instead made a hard fork of emacs with those features (https://github.com/commercial-emacs/commercial-emacs). #emacs #gnus
