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Re: Gnus: caching message headers?
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Eric Abrahamsen |
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Re: Gnus: caching message headers? |
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Mon, 07 Sep 2020 10:53:19 -0700 |
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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!
- Re: Gnus: caching message headers?, (continued)
- Re: Gnus: caching message headers?, wgreenhouse, 2020/09/07
- Re: Gnus: caching message headers?, Eric S Fraga, 2020/09/08
- Re: Gnus: caching message headers?, Gregory Heytings, 2020/09/08
- Re: Gnus: caching message headers?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/09/08
- Re: Gnus: caching message headers?, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/09/08
- Re: Gnus: caching message headers?, Gregory Heytings, 2020/09/08
- Re: Gnus: caching message headers?, Stefan Monnier, 2020/09/08
- Re: Gnus: caching message headers?, wgreenhouse, 2020/09/08
- Re: Gnus: caching message headers?, Gregory Heytings, 2020/09/08
- Re: Gnus: caching message headers?, Gregory Heytings, 2020/09/07
- Re: Gnus: caching message headers?,
Eric Abrahamsen <=
Multiple summary buffers (was: Gnus: caching message headers?), Tim Landscheidt, 2020/09/07
Re: Gnus: caching message headers?, Ozhap, 2020/09/10
Re: Gnus: caching message headers?, Ozhap, 2020/09/10