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Re: How close is elisp to CL now?


From: William Gardella
Subject: Re: How close is elisp to CL now?
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 02:02:43 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux)

Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr> writes:

> William Gardella <gardellawg@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Burton Samograd <burton@samograd.ca> writes:
>
>> Also, for Gnus specifically, emacs --batch jobs combined with using Gnus
>> in "Unplugged" mode is a good setup for background mail checking and
>> fast, non-blocking reading.  See (info "(gnus) Batching Agents"); I run
>> a script similar to the one there as an hourly cron job, then read
>> offline.
>
> Let me get this straight : you have Gnus running unplugged and another
> emacs instance is fetching messages with a cron job ? And the unplugged
> Gnus refreshes its group with gnus-demon-add-handler ? 
>
> That could be the solution I've been looking for for a while. I guess
> one could use this trick for any long process in Emacs (synchronization
> through org-mobile-push comes to mind)
>
> Julien.
>
>

That's the general idea, yes.  And it works very smoothly. :)

-- 
-WGG
I use grml (http://grml.org/)


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